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ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS, 

New York, 



THE GIANTS, 



AND 



HOW TO FIGHT THEM; 



AND 



Wonderful Things 



BY THE 



REV. RICHARD NEWTON, D.D. 



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NEW YORK: 
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1875. 



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CONTENTS. 



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The Giants •••••• 7 

The First Giant 18 

The Second Giant 32 

The Third Giant • . . . 44 

The Fourth Giant 60 

The Fifth Giant 71 

WONDERFUL THINGS. 

I. The Wonderful Staff 199 

II. The Wonderful Comforter 244 

III. The Wonderful Guide. ....... 287 



THE GIANTS. 



"So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling 
and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew 
him." — I. Sam. xvii. 50. 

The Philistine spoken of here, 
was the giant Goliath. Now let 
us put the word Giant instead of 
the Philistine, and then the text 
will read in this way : — " So 
David prevailed over the giant 
with a sling and a stone, and 
smote the giant, and slew him." 
All young people like to hear, 
and read stories about giants. I 

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8 THE GIANTS. 

suppose there is hardly a person 
in this country who knows how 
to read but who has read the 
famous history of "Jack the 
Giant Killer." I remember, when 
a very little boy, reading it, and 
thinking what a wonderful his- 
tory it was. I need not tell you, 
however, that that history has not 
a word of truth in it. No such 
person as the celebrated " Jack " 
ever lived. And the giants, he 
is said to have killed so nimbly, 
never lived either. 

But the verse we have taken 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 9 

for our text to-day, tells us about 
David the Giant Killer. He was 
a real person. He actually lived, 
about 3000 years ago. And the 
giant, whom he killed, was a real 
live giant. He was a pretty big 
fellow too, though not so enor- 
mously large as some of the story 
books would lead us to think. 
Such huge monsters as they repre- 
sent, never existed anywhere, ex- 
cept in the thoughts of those who 
write books of fables, and stories 
that are not true. Goliath, 
the giant whom David killed, 



10 THE GIANTS. 

was six cubits and a span in 
height. 

There are different opinions 
about the size of the Jewish meas- 
ure called a cubit. One of these 
opinions is that it was twenty-one 
inches, and about two-thirds of 
an inch. At this rate, six cubits 
would be about eleven feet four 
inches. A span is six inches. 
This added to the other would 
give us eleven feet ten inches as 
Goliath's height. Now take two 
men, each of whom is five feet 
eleven inches high ; let one of 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 11 

them stand upon the head of the 
other, making as it were, one 

man ; and suppose him to be 
stout and strong in proportion to 
his height, and then you would 
have a man of about Goliath's 
size. The coat of mail that he 
wore, weighed about 150 pounds. 
His armor altogether, weighed 
about 272. That is nearly as 
much as five fifty-six pound 
weights. The armor of an ordi- 
nary soldier in those times, weigh- 
ed about 60 pounds. How fright- 
ful it must have been to see this 



12 THE GIANTS. 

vast creature, with all his armor 
on, and his huge spear in his hand, 
stalk forth before all the army of 
the Israelites, and dare any one of 
them to come out, and fight with 
him ! We do not wonder that 
all the soldiers fled away at his 
approach, and that no one was 
willing to go and fight him. And 
we admire very much the courage 
of David, and his confidence in 
God, that he, a mere shepherd's 
boy, was willing, with nothing in 
his hand but a sling and a stone, 
to go and do battle with this 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 13 

great giant. You know how 
angr J the giant was when he saw 
this beardless hoy come against 
him ; and what dreadful things 
he threatened to do to David; 
and how David ran and took a 
stone, and slung it ; and how it 
went whizzing along, till it hit 
him in the forehead, and he fell 
senseless to the ground. 

Some people pretend to think 
that it was hardly possible for 
David to throw a stone with suf- 
ficient force to sink into the 

giant's head. One of this class, 
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14 THE GIANTS. 



a foolish young man, who pre- 
tended not to beUeve the Bible, 
was once riding in a stage-coach, 
which was full of passengers. He 
was trying to ridicule some of the 
Bible stories. Among others, he 
spoke of this one about David, 
and the giant. He said he 
thought the giant's head must 
have been too hard for a boy, 
like David, to send a stone into 
it ; and turning to an old Quaker 
gentleman, who sat in the corner 
of the coach, he asked, " What 
do you think about it, sir ? " 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 15 

" Friend," said the old gentle- 
man, in a dry, quiet way, "I'll 
tell thee what I think; if the 
giant's head was as soft as thine, 
it must have been very easy for 
the stone to get in." 

But David did kill the giant. 
Yes, and we read about several 
of the giant's brothers who were 
killed in David's time. The 
whole family of them was de- 
stroyed. But the giants are not 
all dead y^t. There are giants 
in the earth in these days. And 
God expects us all to engage in 



16 THE GIANTS. 

the work of trying to fight them. 
When I speak of giants, now, I 
do not mean physical giants, but 
moral giants. I do not mean 
men with huge bodies, four or 
five times larger than common 
sized men ; but I mean great sins 
of different kinds, which may 
well be called giants. 

I want now to speak about five 
giants that we should all unite in 
trying to fight against. One of 
these is a good way off from us ; 
but the rest are very near us. 
Listen to me, while I tell you 



DAVID AND GOLIATH. 17 

who these giants are, and the 
way in which we must try to 
fight them. 

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The first giant I am to speak 
of, is the Giant Heathenism. 

This giant doesn't live here. 
He is found in countries where 
the Gospel is not known. His 
castles may be seen in Africa, 
and in India, in China, and in 
the islands of the sea. He is a 
huge giant. He has a great many- 
heads, more indeed than I can 
pretend to -^ount. In every 

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THE FIEST GIANT. 19 

country where idols are worship- 
ped one of the heads of this giant 
may be found. One of these heads 
is called Juggernaut; another is 
called Brahma ; another Buddha, 
and many such like names. This 
giant is very strong, and very 
cruel. We read, in that interest- 
ing book called " Pilgrim's Prog- 
ress," about a giant whose name 
was Despair, and who lived in a 
castle called " Doubting Castle." 
He used to seize the pilgrims to 
the heavenly city, as they ven- 
tured on his grounds. When he 



20 THE GIANTS. 

had caught them, he used to 
thrust them into a dark, dismal 
dungeon, and beat them with his 
great club; — and treat them so 
badly that many of them were 
driven to kill themselves. He 
was a very strong giant, and very 
cruel. And Heathenism, the gi- 
ant of whom I am speaking, is 
just like him, in these respects. 
He is very strong. He is so 
strong that he keeps six hundred 
millions of people in his dungeons 
all the time. They are bound 
hand and foot. They can not 



THE FIRST GIANT. 21 

possibly get out, till the friends 
of Jesus attack the giant, and 
make him let go of them. 

And he is very cruel, as well 
as very strong. The things that 
are done in some of the dungeons 
where he dwells, show how cruel 
he is. Look at India. There is 
Juggernaut, one of the heads of 
this giant. This idol is kept on 
a great heavy car. At certain 
seasons of the year, when they 
have a festival, this car is dragged 
out. Hundreds of people take 
hold of the rope and pull it 



22 THE GIANTS. 

along ; — and while it rolls on, 
great numbers of men and women 
will throw themselves down, be- 
fore the car, and be crushed to 
death under its wheels, as they 
roll over them. For miles, around 
the temple, you may see the bones 
of the poor creatures who have 
been crushed in this way. 

In other parts of his dungeon, 
this giant makes his poor wretched 
prisoners put iron hooks through 
the flesh, on the back of their 
bodies — and then swing them- 
selves round, with the whole 



THE FIRST GIANT. 23 

weight of their bodies resting on 
these hooks. 

In other parts, he makes his 
poor prisoners kill a great many 
of their little innocent children, 
as soon as they are born. Some- 
times their parents will dig a hole 
in the ground, and bury their 
baby, alive, in it. Sometimes they 
will throw them into the river, to 
be drowned, or devoured by alli- 
gators. In some places, along the 
river Ganges, there are crocodiles 
that live almost altogether on the 
dear little babies that are thrown 



24 THE GIANTS. 

in, by their cruel mothers, to be 
devoured alive, by those horrible 
monsters. 

In the South Sea Islands, three 
out of four, of all the children 
born, used to be killed. 

In one tribe of people in India 
that numbered 12,000 men — 
there were only thirty women. 
All the rest had been killed when 
they were young. 

In the city of Pekin many in- 
fants are thrown out into the 
streets, every night. Sometimes 
they are killed, at once, by the 



THE FIRST GIANT. 25 

fall. Sometimes they are only- 
half killed, and linger, moaning 
in agony, till the morning. Then 
the police go round, and pick 
them up, and throw them, alto- 
gether, into a hole, and bury 
them. 

In Africa, the children are 
sometimes burnt alive. In India, 
they are sometimes exposed in 
the woods till they either starve 
to death, or are devoured by the 
jackals, and vultures. In the 
South Sea Islands they used, some- 
times, to strangle their babies; 
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16 THE GIANTS. 

while at other times they would 
break all their joints, first their 
fingers and toes, then their ankles 
and wrists, and then their elbows 
and knees. 

Surely they are horrible dun- 
geons in which such dreadful 
things are done ! 

And the giant Heathenism, 
who makes his prisoners do such 
things, must be indeed a cruel 
giant ! 

Well, what are we to vio to 
this giant ? Why, we must fight 
him, as David did Goliath. We 



THE FIRST GIANT. 27 

do not expect to kill him out- 
right. He will never be killed 
till Jesus comes again. He Him- 
self will kill the giant Heathen- 
ism. But we can cut off some 
of the giants' heads, and set some 
of his prisoners free. We are 
bound, in duty, to fight against 
this giant. But how are we to do 
this ? Just as David did. He 
fought against Goliath with a 
sling and a stone. He picked the 
stones out of the brook, and hurled 
them at the giant. And this is 
what we must do. The Bible is 



28 THE GIANTS. 

the brook to which we must go. 
The truths which it contains are 
the stones that we must use. 
When these truths are hurled 
against the head of this giant, 
they will sink into it just as Da- 
vid's pebble did into Goliath's 
head — and he will fall. 

A Chinese idolater had become 
a Christian. He stood among his 
countrymen, one day, distributing 
some tracts. They were taken 
into the interior of China, and 
read. The reading of them led 
the people of many towns and 



THE FIRST GIANT. 29 

villages to give up the worship 
of idols. This destroyed one of 
the heads of the giant. In the 
Sandwich Islands another of his 
heads has been destroyed ; — and 
another in the Islands of New 
Zealand : — and another in the 
Feejee Islands. And Sunday- 
school children are trying to help 
in this work, when they assist in 
making contributions to the mis- 
sionary cause. We are helping to 
throw the stones of truth at the 
heads of the giant Heathenism. 
When the Missionaries preach of 



30 THE GLINTS. 

Jesus to the heathen, they are 
slinging stones at the giant's head. 
God directs the stones which they 
throw, and makes them effectual 
to wound, and disable the giant. 
David never could have killed 
Goliath, if left to himself. But 
God helped him, and then the 
stone did its work. And so God 
will help us : so He will help all 
who fight against the great cruel 
giant — Heathenism. Then let 
us go on, like brave giant-killers, 
and fight against this giant. We 
are sure to succeed — for God has 



THE FIEST GIANT. 31 

promised that the giant shall be 
killed at last. 

The first giant is Heathenism : 
and we are to fight against him by 
throwing stones of truth at him. 

But now let us go on to speak 
of some other giants. The one 
I have just spoken of lives a 
great way off from us. The 
others we are to fight against, 
live near us. They may be 
found in our own country ; — in 
our own city ; — in our own 
homes; — yes, and even in our 

own HEARTS. 



The second giant I would 
speak of, is the Giant Selfish- 
ness. 

Now, remember, I am not 
speaking of physical giants, but 
moral giants ; — not of giants 
made of flesh and blood, but 
of giants made of thoughts and 
feelings. This giant Selfishness 
is an intensely ugly looking crea- 
ture. If he could be caught, in 

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THE SECOND GIANT. 33 

a bodily shape, and carried to 
some daguerreotype office to hav^e 
his Hkeness taken, I am sure that, 
when you came to look at his 
picture, you would think it about 
the ugliest you had ever seen. 

How many eyes have you? 
Two. How many ears ? Two. 
How many hands ? Two. And 
how many feet ? Two. Yes, God 
has given us each two eyes, two 
ears, two hands, and two feet, as 
if it were to remind us that we 
are to see, and hear, and work, 
and walk, for others, as well as 



34 THE GIANTS. 

for ourselves. But how many 
mouths have you ? One. Yes, 
for we have to eat for ourselves 
only, and not for others. But 
the giant Selfishness never sees, 
or hears, or does anything for 
any one but himself. If we had 
a correct likeness of him, we 
should see a huge one-eyed, one- 
eared, one-armed monster, with 
his other eye, and ear, and arm 
shrivelled, and dried up like a 
mummy's, for want of use. The 
business of this giant is to take 
people prisoners, and drag them 



THE SECOND GIANT. 35 

to his castle. If they stay there 
long they begin to grow just like 
him, ugly, one-sided looking 
creatures. I do not mean to 
say, that this change takes place 
in their bodies, but it does in 
their souls. They learn to love 
none but themselves. They think 
and care for none but themselves. 
This giant is trying all the time 
to bind his chains on people, and 
make them his prisoners. He 
likes especially to do this while 
they are young. 

But if he does not appear in a 



36 THE GIANTS. 

bodily form, how may we know 
when he is trying to fasten his 
chains on us and make us his 
prisoners ? 

Let me tell you. If you find 
that you are getting to think 
more of yourself, than of others, 
then be sure the giant is after 
you. If you see a boy, or girl, 
enter a room, and go and take 
the best seat in it, when older 
persons are present; if you see 
them pick out for themselves the 
largest piece of cake, or the big- 
gest and nicest apple, when these 



THE SECOND GIANT. 37 

are handed round, you may be 
sure the giant Selfishness is at 
work on them. He is fastening 
his chains upon them ; and if 
they don't take care, he will soon 
have them as his prisoners. 

Now, we must all fight this 
giant. But how are we to do 
this ? Not by standing off at a 
distance, and throwing stones at 
him, as we are to do with the 
giant Heathenism. This will not 
do here. No, this must be a 
close, hand-to-hand fight. We 
must grapple him, and wrestle 



38 THE GIANTS. 

with him. We must fight this 

GIANT BY SELF-DENIAL. 

Let me show you what I mean 
by this. There were two little 
boys, named James and William. 
One day, as they were just start- 
ing for school, their father gave 
them each a three-cent piece to 
spend for themselves. The little 
fellows were very much pleased 
with this, and went off, as merry 
as crickets. 

" What are you going to buy, 
William ?" said James, after they 
had walked a little way. 



THE SECOND GIANT. 39 

** I don't know," William re- 
plied, " I have not thought yet. 
" What are you going to buy ? " 

" Why, I tell you what I be- 
lieve I'll do. You know mothei 
is sick. Now, I think I'll buy 
her a nice orange. I think it 
will taste good to her." 

" You may do so, if you please, 
James," said William ; " but I'm 
going to buy something for my- 
self. Father gave me the money 
to spend for myself, and I mean 
to do it. If mother wants an 
orange, she can send for it. She's 



40 THE GIANTS. 

got money, and Hannah gets 
every thing she wants." 

" I know that," said James, 
" but then it would make me feel 
so happy to see her eating an 
oiange that I had bought for 
her with my own money. She 
is always doing something for us, 
or getting us some . nice thing, 
and I want to let her see that I 
don't forget it." 

** Do as you please," said Wil- 
liam, " but I go in for the candy." 

Presently they came to the 
confectioner's shop. William in- 



THE SECOND GIANT. 41 

vested his three cents in cream- 
candy ; — but James bought a 
nice orange. When they went 
home at noon, he went into 
his mother's chamber, and said : 
" See, Ma', what a nice orange I 
have brought you ! " 

" It is, indeed, very nice, my 
son, and it will taste very good 
to me. I have been wanting an 
orange all the morning. Where 
did you get it ? " 

" Pa' gave me three cents this 
morning, and I bought it with 
them." 



42 THE GIANTS. 

" You are very good, mj dear 
boy, to think of your sick moth- 
er. And you wouldn't spend 
your money for cakes, or candy, 
but denied yourself, that you 
might get an orange for me. 
Mother loves you for this exercise 
of self-denial." And then she 
threw her arms around his neck, 
and kissed him. 

Now, here, you see how the 
giant Selfishness made an attack 
on these two boys. James fought 
him off, bravely, by the exercise 
OF SELF-DENIAL. William refused 



THE SECOND GIANT. 43 

to exercise self-denial, and so the 
giant got a hitch of his chain 
around him. We shall find this 
giant making attacks upon us all 
the time. We can only fight him 

off hj SELF-DENIAL. 



The third giant I want to 
speak about, is the Giant Cov- 

ETOUSNESS. 

This giant is very large in size, 
and very strong in limb ; but he 
has the tiniest little bit of a heart 
you ever saw. It isn't bigger 
than a Bantam chicken's heart. 
You might put it in a nutshell. 
The only wonder is, how so huge 
a frame can be supported by so 

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THE THIRD GIANT. 45 

little a heart. But this is not all, 
for little as his heart is, it is as hard 
as stone. We sometimes hear of 
people dying with what is called 
the OSSIFICATION of the heart. 
Ossification means, turning to 
bone. When a man's heart gets 
hard, or turns to bone, he dies. 
According to this rule the giant 
Covetousness ought to have been 
dead long ago. It's a perfect 
wonder how he manages to live, 
with his little heart all turned to 
stone. But he does live ; yes, 
and not only lives, but is hearty 



46 THE GIANTS. 

and strong. He is very active. 
His castle is of great size, and he 
always has it crowded with pris- 
oners. Those whom he once 
fairly gets into his chains, find it 
very hard to break loose. Yet 
this is very strange, for he is a 
most disagreeable creature. He 
drives the poor away from his 
door. If a shivering beggar comes 
by, he buttons up his pocket, 
lest by any means a penny should 
happen to get out. He can hear 
about poor widows and orphans 
starving with hunger, and perish- 



THE THIRD GIANT. 4T 

ing with cold, but never sheds a 
tear, or heaves a sigh, or gives 
the least trifle for their relief. 
When he knows of worthy people 
being in need, he " shutteth up 
his compassion from them." His 
heart is hard as a rock, and cold 
as an iceberg. He loves money 
better than any thing else in the 
world. He gets all he can, and 
keeps all he gets. He is asham- 
ed of his name, and won't answer 
to it. He pretends that his right 
name is — Frugality. But this 
is a great story. Frugality is a 



48 THE GIANTS. 

very different person. He is a 
good, true, honest fellow. I know 
he is a sort of second cousin of 
the giants, and some people think 
he looks very much like him -, but 
I don't think he does at all. At 
any rate this is not the giant's 
name. His own, real, proper 
name is Covetousness j and his 
puny, little, stony heart proves it. 
Well, his prisoners all become 
wonderfully like him. Their 
hearts shrivel up till they are al- 
most as little, and as hard as his. 
But how may we know when he 



THE THIRD GIANT. 49 

is trying to make people his pris- 
oners? Very easily. When you see 
people learning to love their mon- 
ey more than they used to do • — 
when they always tie their purse- 
strings very tight, and are very 
slow to untie them ; — when you 
hear them, all the time, grumb 
ling about there being so many 
collections taken up, — and so 
many calls for money ; — when 
you find them unwilling to give ; 
— when you see them wince and 
wriggle under parting with a 
little money, as though you were 

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50 THE GIANTS. 

drawing one of their eye-teetli 
out of their heads, then you may 
know that the giant Covetousness 
has got a hold upon these people. 

My dear children, I want you 
all to fight bravely against this 
giant. If you ask, How are you 
to fight him? I answer, By learn- 
ing TO GIVE. He hates giving, 
above all things. It hurts his 
feelings dreadfully. Once get 
into the habit of giving, and he 
never can fasten his chains upon 
you. 

" Mother," asked a liitle boy 



THE THIRD GIANT. 51 

who was trying to make a good 
beginning of the new year, "How 
much of my spending money do 
you think I ought to give to 
God ? " 

"I don't know," said his 
mother — " How much have 
you ? " He opened his wallet, 
and out dropped, on the table, a 
gold dollar his grandmother had 
given him for a Christmas pres- 
ent, a five-cent piece, and a 
three-cent piece. 

" There's my gold dollar, — I'll 
halve that," said he j " five cents 



52 THE GIANTS. 

and three cents are eight cents, 
and half of that is four. But, 
no. I'll give the largest half 
TO God. I'll give Him half the 
dollar, and the five cents." 

I don't believe the giant Cov- 
etousness will ever get a single 
link of his chain fastened on the 
limbs of that noble-hearted boy. 

But I want to tell you about 
a great battle, once fought, be- 
tween this giant and a Deacon, 
in a church in New England. 
We may call the Deacon's name, 
Holdfast. The story is a true 



THE THIRD GIANT. 53 

one, though this was not the 
man's real name. Before Deacon 
Holdfast became a Christian, he 
had been a prisoner of the giant's 
for years. The chains of the gi- 
ant had been so riveted, upon his 
limbs, that he found it very hard 
to get rid of them. Many a 
sharp conflict they had together. 
Sometimes the Deacon would 
get the victory, but more fre- 
quently the giant. Still the Dea- 
con wouldn't give up. He was 
determined not to wear the gi- 
ant's chain. And after the fight 



54 THE GIANTS. 

that I'm going to tell you about, 
he got such an advantage over 
the giant that he never troubled 
him much again. It happened 
in this way. 

In the same church, to which 
the Deacon belonged, there was 
a worthy, honest, good man, who 
was very poor. This poor man 
had the misfortune to lose his 
cow. She died. The poor man 
was in great distress. The cow 
was his chief dependence for the 
support of his family. He went 
and told the Deacon about his 



THE THIRD GIANT. 55 

trouble. In order to aid him in 
getting another cow, the good 
Deacon drew up a subscription- 
paper, and put his own name 
down, at the head of it, for five 
dollars, which he paid over. This 
made the giant Covetousness very- 
angry. He took on dreadfully. 
He began to rave and storm, and 
tried to frighten the Deacon. 

" What's the use of all this 
waste ? " he cried. " Charity be- 
gins at home. The more you 
give, the more you may give. 
Why can't you let people take 



56 THE GlANTd 

care of themselves ? What right 
have you to take the bread out 
of the mouths of your own chil- 
dren, and give it to strangers ? 
Go on at this rate, and the poor- 
house, wretchedness, poverty, and 
rags, are what you will come to." 
This made the Deacon angry. 
His spirit was roused. He went 
to the poor man to whom he had 
given the subscription, and told 
him he must give him back the 
five dollars. The poor fellow's 
heart sunk within him. He 
thought he should never get his 



THE THIRD GIANT. 57 

COW again. But he handed over 
the money. The Deacon stood 
a moment as if hesitating what 
to do. At last he said to the 
poor man ; — " My brother, some 
people are very much troubled 
with their old women, but I am 
troubled most with my old man. 
He has been scolding me dread- 
fully for giving you so much 
money ; but now I mean to fix 
him." And then turning round, 
as if addressing the giant, he 
said ; — " Old fellow, I want you 
to understand that I mean to give 



58 THE GIANTS. 

away just as much money as I 
think right." And then opening 
his wallet, and taking out a ten 
dollar bill, he added, — " I shall 
now give this good brother ten 
dollars instead of five, and if you 
say another word I'll give him 
TWENTY, instead of ten ! " 

This was a dreadful blow to 
the giant. It laid him sprawling 
on the ground. It took him, as 
the Bible says, " under the fifth 
rib." It knocked the breath 
clean out of him. He hadn't a 
word to say. 



THE THIRD (JIANT. 59 

Learning to give is the way 
in which to fight the giant Gov- 
etousness. 



Ill imutli #kBt» 



The fourth giant of which 1 
will speak, is the Giant Ill- 
temper. 

This giant is not so large, or 
strong as the others, but he is 
quite as ugly. He is found in 
more places than the last. He 
has more to do with young people 
than either of the others, though 
he does attack old people too, 
sometimes. He is always in a 

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THE FOURTH GIANT. 61 

pet. From constant pouting, his 
lips have grown horribly thick 
and ugly-looking. He is frown- 
ing all the time, till his forehead 
is as full of wrinkles, and as rough 
as the bark of an old oak tree. 
Sometimes his eyes are red with 
weeping, and at other times they 
are all in a flame with anger. 
Sometimes his voice bellows like 
thunder; and then again it will 
resemble the low hoarse growl of 
a surly dog. 

He may generally be found 
hanging round the nursery, the 



62 THE GIANTS. 

dining or sitting-room, ready to 
pounce upon the children, and 
make them prisoners. And, 
when he gets hold of them, he 
makes them so ugly and disagree- 
able that no one cares to have 
any thing to do with them. 

Now let me give you some 
signs by which you may know 
when this giant is getting hold 
of a boy or girl. He generally 
waits and watches till he hears 
them asked to do something 
which he knows they don't like. 
Then he is ready, in a moment, 



TELE FOURTH GIANT. 63 

to begin his attack. He makes 
the eye begin to frown. He 
puckers up the mouth ; he makes 
the Hps pout, and swell out to 
twice their usual size. The 
fingers begin to wriggle about, 
like a set of worms -, or, some- 
times, one of the fingers goes into 
the corner of the month. The 
shoulders are seen to twist about, 
first one way, and then another. 
If the boy has a book in his hand, 
down it drops on the floor ; or, 
else, it is flung across the room. 
If he is walking, he stamps, with 



6i THE GIANTS. 

his foot, as if he were trying to 
get a tight shoe on. If he is 
sitting, his feet begin to swing, 
backwards and forwards, and 
make a great noise, by striking 
against the chair. Sometimes he 
seems to become deaf and dumb. 
He hears nothing, — and says 
nothing. At other times he 
speaks, but it is just like a dog 
when snarHng over a bone. 

Whenever you see these signs, 
you may know that this ugly gi- 
ant is about, and is busy making 
prisoners. And if you don't fight 



THE FOURTH GIANT. 65 

bravely against him, he will fasten 
his chains on you, and then yon 
will be spoiled. 

But how are we to fight 
AGAINST THIS GIANT ? I answet ; 

By TRYING TO BE LIKE JeSUS. 

We always think of Him as 
■ — the " gentle Jesus, meek and 
mild." Do you suppose that this 
giant ever got a single link of his 
chain on Jesus ? No. Do you 
suppose Jesus ever spoke a cross 
word to any one ? No. Do you 
suppose He ever did an unkind 
act to any one ? No. We have 
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66 THE GIANTS. 

no particular history of the child- 
hood of Jesus. But we know 
how He acted when He was a 
man ; — and we know that He 
was always the same. If we try 
to be like Jesus, the giant Ill- 
temper will never get hold of us. 
When you are tempted to speak 
cross words, or to do unkind 
things, ask yourself the question, 
What would Jesus do, or say, if 
He were in my situation ? In 
this v/ay you will always be able 
to fight off this giant. 

I was reading lately about two 



THE FOURTH GIANT. 67 

little sisters, who always lived 
happily together. The giant Ill- 
temper never could catch them. 
They had the same books and the 
same playthings, yet they never 
quarrelled. No cross words, no 
pouts, no slaps, no running away 
in a pet, ever took place with 
them. Whether they were sitting 
on the green before the door, or 
playing with their old dog, Congo, 
or dressing their dolls, or helping 
their mother, they were always 
the same sweet-tempered little 
girls. 



68 THE GIANTS. 

"You never seem to quarrel/' 
said a lady, visiting at their house, 
one day. " How is it that you are 
always so happy together ? " 

They looked up, and the eldest 
answered ; — " I 'spose it's 'cause 

AdDIE lets me, and I LET AdDIE." 

Ah ! yes, it's just this letting 
that keeps the giant off. What 
a beautiful picture that is of those 
sweet-tempered sisters ! But see 
what a different one this is. 

A mother hears a noise under 
the window. She looks out. 

" Gerty, what's the matter .? '* 



THE FOURTH GIANT, 69 

" Mary won't let me have her 
ball," cries Gerty. 

" Well, Gerty wouldn't let me 
have her pencil in school," cries 
Mary, " and I don't mean she 
shall have my ball." 

" Fie, fie, is that the way for 
sisters to act towards each other?" 
says the mother. 

" She'll only lose my pencil," 
mutters Gerty, " and she sha'n't 
have it." 

" And she'll only lose my 
ball," replies Mary, *^ and I won't 
let her have it ! " 



70 THE GIANTS. 

Ah, the giant had got fast hold 
of these two girls. They didn't, 
know how to fight him. They 
were not trying to be like Jesus. 



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The last giant I wish to speak 
about, is the Giant Intemper- 
ance. 

When a person is making a 
speech, and giving reasons to 
persuade those who hear him to 
do anything, he generally keeps 
the strongest reason for the last. 
And so I have put the giant In- 
temperance last, and shall say 
more about him than any of the 

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72 THE GIANTS. 

Others, because he is the most 
important. He is the worst giant 
of the whole lot, as I think you 
will be ready to own after you 
have heard a little about him. 

He is a very ugly looking fel- 
low. When he is in a good 
humor, and feels jolly, he puts on 
a silly face, and looks very foolish. 
But when he gets in a passion, he 
is awful looking, and it makes 
one shudder to see him. He 
never was very handsome, even 
when he was quite young; but 
as he has grown older, and more 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 73 

wicked, evil passions have shown 
themselves more and more on his 
countenance, and sin has stamped 
its dreadful mark upon his fea- 
tures so fearfully, that he is now 
a very monster of ugliness. And 
he is so filthy, too, that his whole 
appearance is disgusting. Gen- 
erally he is clothed in rags. Often 
he is seen covered with dirt, gath- 
ered from the gutter where he 
has been lying. His face is fre- 
quently all bruised and swollen, 
from the fights in which he has 
been engaging. Sometimes he 



74 THE GIANTS. 

goes unwashed and unshaved for 
days together ; and then, with a 
rough, shaggy beard, and with an 
old crumpled hat on his head, he 
may be seen reeling and stagger- 
ing about the streets, a perfect 
nuisance to the neighborhood. 

He is very wicked, too. He 
breaks every commandment of 
God's law. He is the author of 
nearly every crime that is com- 
mitted. It is he who sets on 
men and women to sin. He fills 
our almshouses, our prisons, and 
penitentiaries. If it were not for 



THE FIFTH GIANT, 75 

him, we might dismiss most of 
our police, do without half our 
courts, close our station-houses, 
tear down our prisons, and burn 
our gallows. Sin follows him 
like a shadow, wherever he goes. 
Quarrelling, swearing, fighting, 
robbing, murdering, and all kinds 
of wickedness abound where this 
giant dwells. 

Of all the giants in this country- 
he is the largest, the most power- 
ful, and in every way the most 
dangerous. He is stronger here 
than almost any where else. 



76 THE GIANTS. 

There was a time when he might 
easily have been driven out of the 
land. But now he has built so 
many castles, and gloomy dun- 
geons ; he has so many thousands 
of men in his service, and so 
much money to use in his defence, 
that he bids defiance to his ene- 
mies. More sermons and speeches 
have been delivered against him, 
more books written, more socie- 
ties formed, and more efforts 
made in every way against him, 
than all the rest put together. 
And though he is thousands 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 77 

of years old, and has been through 
hundreds of battles, he does not 
seem to grow weak, or stiff with 
age, like giant Paganism, that 
Bunyan tells of in the " Pilgrim's 
Progress." But every year he 
seems to get stronger and more 
active. And oh ! what a sad sight 
it is to look into his dungeons ! 
Hundreds, and thousands of pris- 
oners, in our land, are bound fast 
in his chains. He has more of 
them than any other giant here. 
And they are not from any one 
class only The rich and the 



78 THE GIANTS. 

poor, the high and the low, are 
among them. Laboring men, 
mechanics, merchants, lawyers, 
doctors, ministers ; men and wo- 
men, and even children too, arc 
dragged into his dungeons. The 
most accomplished, the most tal- 
ented, the most beautiful, the 
most amiable, fall under his pow- 
er. Thirty thousand captives are 
taken from his dungeons, in our 
own country, every year, and 
buried in the drunkard's grave. 
How dreadful this is to think of! 
We read in history, that a good 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 79 

many years ago, when Greece 
was one of the first nations of the 
world, there was a great monster 
who troubled a part of that land 
very much. He made them send 
him, every year, seven boys and 
seven girls. These he used to 
eat. And every year, when the 
time came for sending these poor 
children, what a scene of sorrow 
there was ! How the parents 
cried, and how the friends and 
relatives cried ! And how those 
who were going to be slaughtered 
cried, as they went on board the 



80 THE GIANTS. 

great ship, with black sails, that 
carried the victims to the mon- 
ster ! Those people thought it 
was a terrible thing to have that 
dreadful plague devour fourteen 
of their children every year. But 
what was that Grecian monster, 
in comparison with this awful 
giant Intemperance ? He takes 
THIRTY THOUSAND mcu, and wo- 
men, and children, every year, 
and devours them. 

Of course, he must be very 
busy making prisoners, to be able 
to take so many. He sets a great 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 81 

many traps, and snares, to catch 
people. The taverns, grog-shops, 
lager-beer houses, and drinking 
saloons, along our streets, are all 
TRAPS he has set. There he sits, 
watching to catch any passer-by, 
just as you often see a spider 
quietly waiting in its web to en- 
tangle some poor fly. Into these 
traps people are enticed. They 
are tempted to drink. They 
learn to love drinking. And 
when this habit is formed, they 
become his prisoners. But these 
are not his only snares. He is 



82 THE GIANTS. 

very cunning, and often catches 
people where they have no idea 
there is any danger. 

Sometimes he puts little traps 
inside of tempting looking sugar- 
plums, to catch boys and girls. 
He drops a little wine, or cordial, 
or brandy, into these sugar-plums, 
and then spreads them out in the 
store windows. These are bought, 
and eaten. The taste for liquor 
is formed, and so by degrees the 
giant fastens his chain upon the 
buyers, till they, too, become his 
prisoners. 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 83 

Sometimes he spreads a snare 
in the social evening party. A 
pleasant company is assembled. 
Refreshments are handed round. 
Wine is poured out. A young 
man is asked to take some, but 
declines. He is pressed to drink 
to the health of a friend. He 
hesitates, not wishing to hurt his 
friend's feelings, but thinks he 
can't refuse without doing so. The 
sparkling glass is taken. Then 
another, and another, till at last 
he is intoxicated. The giant has 
fastened the first link of his cruel 



84 THE GIANTS. 

chain upon him. The taste for 
drink is formed now. He wants 
more and more. By and by he 
can't do without it. The giani 
has bound him, hand and foot, 
and he is dragged helplessly down 
to ruin. 

These are some of his ways of 
catching people. He does not 
pounce upon them, and drag 
them off at once; but he cap- 
tures them by degrees. Do you 
know how a boa-constrictor seizes 
a sheep, or a cow ? When he sees 
one coming, he darts suddenly 



THE FIFTH GIANT. S5 

forth, throws a part of his huge 
body around the animal, then 
another, and another, till he has 
bound it so tight that it can not 
move. It is unable to resist then, 
and the serpent crushes it to death 
in his powerful folds. Well, just 
so this giant fights. He does not 
bind his prisoners fast, at once, 
but winds himself gradually about 
them. Every time they drink 
liquor, he throws a fold around 
them. Tighter and tighter he 
grasps them, until he has them 
completel)/ in his power. When 
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86 THE GIANTS. 

you see a person beginning to 
drink intoxicating liquor of any 
kind, be sure the giant is after 
him. You may always know 
when he is coming, and I will 
tell you how. Did you ever see 
a shark ? You know what horri- 
ble creatures they are, and how 
much the sailors dread them. 
They will bite off a man's leg, 
or even swallow him whole, and 
make nothing of it. Well, you 
can always tell when a shark is 
about. He sends a little fish 
ahead of him, called the pilot- 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 87 

fish. If you see one of these 
about the vessel, then look out 
for a shark. He is certainly 
near, and you will soon see him. 
Now, the giant Intemperance 
always sends a sort of pilot-fish 
ahead of him. He never comes 
before it ; but is pretty sure to 
come after it. Wherever you see 
it, look out for the giant. Do 
you know what it is ? It is a 
BOTTLE, or DECANTER. When you 
see one of these in use, you may 
be sure the giant is not far off. 
When a person gets into his 



88 THE GIANTS. 

power, every thing begins to go 
wrong with him. His business is 
neglected. His money is squan- 
dered. He becomes unkind to 
his wife and children, or unduti- 
ful to his parents. He spends 
for drink, that which should go 
to support his family. He be- 
comes cruel, and hard-hearted, 
passionate, and fierce. His evil 
tempers are roused. They con- 
quer his better feelings. He 
turns from the path of virtue, and 
enters that of vice. That is a 
down-hill path, and the giant 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 89 

pushes him on faster and faster. 
He loses all sense of shame, and 
hesitates not at any sin. There 
is nothing so mean, so base, so 
wicked, that the prisoner of this 
giant will not do. His prospects 
for the future are ruined, the 
moment he is securely bound. 
Yes, RUINED : ruined for time — 
and for eternity. Misery, poverty, 
disgrace, and want, are the por- 
tion the giant gives him while 
he lives ; and, when he dies, he 
finds the truth of the Bible- 
statement, that "drunkards shall 
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90 THE GIANTS. 

NOT inherit the kingdom of 
God." 

This giant Intemperance is the 
one we are now to speak about. 
Is he not a horrible fellow ? And 
should we not all engage in 
fighting him ? 

Now, there are two things for 
us to consider : — How we are to 
FIGHT HIM ; and why we should 
FIGHT HIM. The way in which, 
and the reason why, we ought 
to fight him. 

By fighting this giant Intem- 
perance, I don't mean going into 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 91 

his dungeons, and trying to get 
his prisoners out. This we ought 
to do with all our hearts, when- 
ever we can. But the kind of 
fighting I am going now to talk 
about is, what soldiers would call 

DEFENSIVE WARFARE, that is, hoW 

to keep him off from ourselves, 
so that he shall not make us his 
prisoners. 

We are to do this by drinking 
COLD water. Of course, I do not 
mean to put cold water in oppo- 
sition to milk, or tea, or coffee. 
If we only keep to such drinks 



92 THE GIANTS. 

as these, the giant's hands will 
never be laid on us. But I mean 
cold water in opposition to cider, 
beer, wine, brandy, gin, and the 
like, as our habitual drink. 

Some people say, that it does 
no harm to drink a little. Let 
us see whether this is so or not. 

Suppose you were on the top 
of a high mountain, and wanted 
to amuse yourself by rolling a 
large stone down its side. Some 
one, standing by, objects to this 
sport, telling you that it may 
perhaps fall on the head of a 



THE FIFTH GIA.NT. 93 

traveller, climbing up the moun- 
tain, and crush him to death ; or 
break through the roof of some 
cottage, far down in the valley. 
"Oh! no," you reply, "I only 
intend to roll it a little way. I 
don't mean to let it go far enough 
to do any mischief." But, if 
you bring it to the edge, and 
push it over, can you stop it 
w^hen you please ? Of course 
not. The easiest, the safest, the 
ONLY way to prevent any danger, 
would be, NOT to set it in mo- 
tion AT ALL. 



94 THE GIANTS. 

Just SO it is with drinking. 
There is no danger while we 
keep to cold water, and let all 
kinds of liquor alone. But, if we 
begin taking a little now and 
then, we shall soon find it hard 
to stop ; and, if the habit goes 
on increasing, it will, before long, 
be almost impossible to give it 
up. Every cup we take, like 
each successive roll of the stone, 
only makes the next more easy. 

In the story of Sinbad, the 
sailor, we read that, in one of his 
voyages, he landed on a pleasant 



THE FIFTH GIANT 95 

island. While walking about 
there, he met a little old man 
who asked him if he would not 
be so kind as to help him a little 
on his journey. Sinbad stooped 
down, picked him up, and set 
him on his shoulders. By and by 
he began to be tired, and want- 
ed the old man to get down. 
But he wouldn't. After a little 
while, he asked him again to get 
off. But still he refused. Then 
Sinbad tried to shake him off. 
But he couldn't. The man clung 
on as if for life. So poor Sinbad 



96 THE GIANTS. 

had to journey on, and on, with 
this load upon his shoulders. 

Now, if you let this giant once 
get hold of you, — you will have 
as much trouble to get rid of him 
as Sinbad had with the old man. 
He will probably cling to you, 
for life, — and be a load too heavy 
for you to bear. The only way 

is, to KEEP HIM OFF ALTOGETHER. 

The great Dr. Johnson used 
to say, that it was easy not to 
drink at all, but hard to drink a 
little, and not soon take a great 
deal. There is danger in drink- 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 97 

iiig liquor at all, but there is no 
danger in not drinking. One 
thing is certain ; if we use only 
cold water, we shall never be 
made prisoners by this giant. He 
has no power at all over those 
who keep to cold water, and 
none of his attempts can succeed 
against them. 

In Fairy tales we sometimes 
read about the charms or talis- 
mans, which the persons there 
described are said to wear. These 
are supposed to have the power 
of protecting those who use 
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98 THE GIANTS. 

them, from all their enemies. No 
one, it was thought, could harm 
them while they had these about 
them. Well, cold water is the 
talisman for us, — if we do not 
want to become prisoners of this 
giant. He never can conquer 
us while we make this our drink. 

Now, the next thing we v/ere 
to consider was, why we should 
fight against this giant. 

There are four reasons for 
doing so, in the way spoken of, 
that is, by the use of cold water. 



We should fight against the 
giant in this way, because cold 

WATER IS THE DRINK THAT GoD HAS 
MADE FOR US. 

We have springs and fountains 
of water all over the world. They 
are found in every land. Wher- 
ever we find people living, there 
we find water for them to drink. 
But we never find any thing else 
than water in these springs. 

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100 THE GIANTS. 

Springs differ very much, both in 
taste and quality. The water 
from one spring will have sulphur 
in it; — another will have iron in 
it ; — another will have magnesia 
in it ; — another will have some 
kind of salt in it : but there never 
was a spring found in all the 
world that had alcohol in it. 
Alcohol, you know, is the part 
of wine or liquor that intoxicates, 
or makes people drunk. But 
alcohol is never found in the 
water that God has made, as it 
comes gushing up, pure and 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 101 

sparkling, from the earth. No 
body ever heard of a natural 
spring that yielded lager beer, or 
ale, or porter, or wine, or gin, or 
brandy. But if it had been good 
for us to have such drinks as 
these, God would have made 
them. He could have made 
springs that would yield different 
kinds of liquor just as easily as 
He made the trees to bear differ- 
ent kinds of fruit. If it had been 
necessary for us, there would have 
been, in every neighborhood, one 
or two beer, or ale, or brandy 



102 JHE GIANTS. 

fountains. But you may travel 
round the globe, from East to 
West, from North to South ; — 
you may visit every country, and 
examine every stream, and spring, 
and well ; and you will not find 
any where a single beer, or wine, 
or brandy spring. 

When God made Adam and 
Eve, you know He put them in 
the beautiful garden of Eden. 
In that garden, we are told, " the 
Lord God made to grow every 
tree that was pleasant to the sight 
and good for food. And a river 



THE FIFTH GLiXT. 103 

went out of Eden to water the 
garden ; and it was parted, and 
came into four heads." This is 
what the Bible tells us about that 
garden. We know it must have 
been very beautiful. Every thing 
that God makes is beautiful. 
When He makes a rainbow, how 
beautiful it is! When He makes 
a butterfly, how beautiful it is ! 
When He makes a flower, a tree, 
a star, a sun, they are all beauti- 
ful. And when God undertook 
to make a garden, oh ! how very 
beautiful it must have been ! 



104 THE GIANTS. 

What gently swelling hills ! — 
what level plains ! — what shady 
groves ! — what velvet lawns ! — 
what green, mossy banks ! — what 
graceful trees ! — what fragrant 
flowers ! — what springs and foun- 
tains of cool, crystal water were 
there ! Every thing that was 
pleasant to the eye and to the 
ear, to the taste and to the 
smell, was there ; but do you sup- 
pose that in any part of the gar- 
den of Eden there was a wine or 
brandy fountain ? No ; nothing 
of the kind was found there. 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 105 

Well, then, if cold water was the 
drink which God gave Adam in 
Eden ; if cold water is the drink 
which God has made for us, and 
if it is the only drink He has 
made for us, doesn't it follow 
very naturally that cold water is 
the best drink for us, and the one 
that we should use in preference 
to all others ? And doesn't it 
follow, too, that we should have 
nothing to do with the giant In- 
temperance, but should resist him 
with all our might ? 

The first reason, then, why we 



lOG THE GIANTS. 

should fight against the giant 
Intemperance is, because cold 

WATER IS THE DRINK GOD HAS MADE 
FOR US. 



^^"^^^ lia^ 



We should fight against this 
Giant, because he is an enemy to 

HEALTH AND STRENGTH. 

He never allows a prisoner of 
his to possess these blessings. He 
does not take them away at once; 
but, little by little, he robs every 
captive of them. The atmosphere 
of his dungeons is poisonous. 

When one has been a captive 
of this giant for several years, 

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108 THE GIANTS. 

what a picture of disease he pre- 
sents ! He is only the wreck of 
a man. His strength of body 
and of mind is gone ; and his 
drooping head, his bloated face, 
his bloodshot eyes, his trembling 
hands, and staggering step, tell 
plainly what the giant has done 
for him. And then comes the 
delirium tremens, that dreadful 
sickness, caught only in this gi- 
ant's dungeons, with all its hor- 
rors, and hurries the poor man 
off to the drunkard's grave. 
And those whom the giant 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 109 

only catches now and then, and 
who soon escape again from his 
clutches, do not get off unin- 
jured. And even those who are 
never really made prisoners, who 
only take a little, do themselves 
harm. Many persons do not be- 
lieve that this is so. They think 
a little wine, or brandy, strength- 
ens them, and does them good, 
s.nd that it is only because some 
people drink too much, and get 
intoxicated, that there is any 
harm done by drinking. But 
liquors will injure if taken at 
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110 THE GIANTS. 

all, though the more we take the 
worse it will be for us. 

Cold water, however, promotes 
health and strength. There can 
be no doubt about this ; neither 
can there be any doubt about the 
bad effect of liquors. 

God is the wisest and most 
skilful physician in the universe. 
He knows what is best for the 
health and strength of people; 
and He prescribes cold water as 
the best drink. 

Some years ago there was a 
man who had a severe wound in 



THE FIFTH GIANT. Ill 

his side. It healed at last, but 
left an opening, with a flap of 
skin lying over it, and through 
this opening persons could see 
right into his stomach. The 
physician who attended him, 
tried a great many interesting 
experiments upon him. When 
he made his patient drink cold 
water, and live on plain food, he 
found his stomach in a healthy 
state. When he made him use 
beer, or wine, or brandy, for sev- 
eral days, he found the inside of 
his stomach inflamed and sore ; 



112 THE GIAXTa 

and the man would complain of 
pain in his stomach, and head- 
ache, and say he felt very un- 
well. 

There is an interesting story 
mentioned in the Bible that illus- 
trates this point. You remem- 
ber when Daniel and his com- 
panions went to Babylon, they 
were chosen, with a number of 
others, to go through a course of 
training to fit them for appear- 
ing in the presence of the king. 
While undergoing this training, 
they were expected to drink 



THE FIFTH GIANT, 113 

wine, and eat certain articles 
of food, which a pious Jew did 
not feel at liberty to use. The 
thought of doing this was a great 
trial to Daniel and his friends. 
They could not feel willing to do 
it. They, therefore, asked the 
officer who had charge of them, 
to excuse them from eating the 
meat and drinking the wine 
which the others used, and allow 
them to drink water and eat 
pulse, that is, such things as rice, 
beans, etc. The officer was a 
great friend to Daniel, and he 
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114 THE GIANTS. 

said he would be very glad to ac- 
commodate him and his friends 
in this matter ; but he was afraid 
that if he did so, they would 
grow thin and pale, while the 
rest would be looking hearty and 
strong ; and then, when the king 
came to see them, he would be 
displeased at him, and perhaps 
order his head to be taken ofF. 
Then Daniel asked him to be so 
kind as to try the experiment for 
ten days, and see how it worked. 
He did so. Daniel and his friends 
had rice, and such like articles, 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 115 

for food, — and drank water; — 
while the other young men ate 
meat, and drank wine. At the 
end of ten days the officer found 
that Daniel and his companions 
were stouter and healthier than 
all the rest. 

It is a great mistake to sup- 
pose that wine and liquors have 
the effect of making people 
strong and hearty. They have 
just the opposite effect. There 
is no drink that gives more real 
strength than cold water. 

You know how strong the ox 



116 THE GIANTS. 

and the horse are, and what hard 
work they have to do. Well, 
what do they drink ? Water ; — 
and nothing else. Take the 
horse, or the ox, after he has 
been ploughing hard all day, and 
is worn out with fatigue. Offer 
him a bucket of beer, or wine. 
Will he drink it ? Not a drop. 
But give him a bucket of water, 
and how quickly he will drink it 
up. Water gives the horse his 
strength ; and the ox, and the 
huge elephant, too. 

Look at that giant oak tree. 



THE FIFTPI GIANl 117 

How strong it is ! Yet it drinks 
nettling but water. You know 
that trees drink, as well as men 
and cattle. The tree drinks 
through its roots, and through 
its leaves. If you break the ten- 
der stem of a plant or tree, you 
see a milky sort of liquid ooze 
out. We call it the sap. The 
sap is to the tree, just what the 
blood is to our bodies. Their 
growth and strength depend up- 
on it. But water makes the best 
sap for the trees, as it makes the 
best blood for our bodies. Take 



118 THE GIANTS. 

any plant, and let it have nothing 
but wine, or beer, to moisten its 
leaves and roots, and it vi^ill die. 
Suppose it should rain wine or 
brandy for six months, what 
would the effect be ? All the 
plants and trees would die. 

One day a temperance man 
met a poor, miserable sailor, who 
had almost ruined himself with 
drink. He induced him to sign 
the pledge for one year. Jack 
liked the improvement in his 
health and prospects so much, 
that when the year was out, he 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 119 

went and renewed the pledge 
for ninety-nine years. He had 
just received his wages, which 
he was carrying in a bag in the 
inner side-pocket of his jacket. 
It looked like a great lump, or 
swelling, there. On his way 
home, he met the tavern-keeper, 
at whose house he used to spend 
his wages in liquor, and thought 
he would have a little fun with 
him. 

"Well, old fellow," said the 
tavern - keeper, " how do you 
do?" 



120 THE GIANTS 

" Pretty well," said the sailor, 
'*' only I've got a hard lump here, 
on my side." 

" Ah ! " said the other, " it's 
cold water that has made that." 

" Do you think so ? " 

" Yes, I know it. Only give 
up your miserable cold water 
slops, and drink some good li- 
quor, and it will soon take the 
lump away." 

"But," said the sailor, "I have 
just renewed the pledge, and I 
can't do it." 

"Then mind what I say," said 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 121 

the tavern-keeper, — " that lump 
will go on increasing, and very 
likely before another year you'll 
have one on the other side too." 
" I hope I shall," said the 
sailor, taking out his bag of sil- 
ver, and shaking it. " Good- 
bye." 

Some years ago, a vessel, load- 
ed with iron, was wrecked on 
the coast of New Jersey, in the 
winter-time. The hold of the 
vessel was partially filled with 
water. It was necessary to get 
the iron out before the vessel 
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122 THE GIANTS. 

went to pieces. The weather 
was intensely cold, and to stand 
in the water and handle the cold 
iron, was very severe work. The 
men hired to unload the vessel, 
were divided into three sets, who 
were to relieve each other as oft- 
en as might be necessary. The 
first set of men drank pretty 
freely of brandy, before they be- 
gan, in order, as they said, to 
keep up their strength. They 
were worn out in about an hour. 
The next set drank hot coffee, 
and they stood the work for 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 123 

above two hours. The third set 
were cold water men, and they 
were able to continue at the 
work for about three hours, be- 
fore they were relieved. 

A good many years ago, the 
crew of a Danish ship, number- 
ing sixty persons, had to spend 
the winter up towards the North 
pole, in Hudson's Bay. They 
were supplied with provisions, 
and had plenty of liquor, of 
which they drank freely. Be- 
fore spring FIFTY-EIGHT OUt of 

the sixty had died, leaving only 



124 THE GIANTS. 

TWO men to return home. Not 
long after, the crew of an Eng- 
lish vessel, numbering twenty- 
two men, had to pass a winter 
in the same neighborhood. They 
had no ardent spirits with them, 
and only two of the company 
died during the whole winter. 

When ships, on board of which 
much liquor is used, go into 
warm climates, they are always 
having sickness and death among 
the crews ; but temperance ships 
will often make the same voy- 
ages, and hardly have a single 



THE FIFTH GIANT, 125 

case of sickness or death on 
board. This shows how health 
follows cold water drinkers, while 
it flies from the presence of the 
giant. 

But nothing proves this more 
certainly, than to notice the dif- 
ferent effect which disease has on 
those who are in the habit of 
drinking liquor, from what it has 
on those who drink water. 

When a dreadful disease, like 
the cholera, or the yellow fever, 
breaks out, those who drink li- 
quor are the most likely to take 
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136 THE GIANT3. 

it, and the least likely to get 
well of it. The constant, or 
habitual use of liquor makes the 
system ripe, or ready for disease. 

An English gentleman, who 
was in Russia, while the cholera 
was prevailing, says: — "It is a 
remarkable circumstance, that 
persons given to drinking were 
swept away like flies. In one 
town of twenty thousand inhab- 
itants, every drunkard has fall- 
en ! — all are dead — not one re- 
mams ! 

A physician in Poland, says : 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 127 

the disease spared all those who 
led regular, temperate lives, and 
lived in healthy situations ; but 
they who were weakened by 
drinking were always attacked. 
Out of every hundred individu- 
als destroyed by cholera, it can 
be proved that ninety were ac- 
customed to the free use of ar- 
dent spirits." 

A physician, who was in Mon- 
treal at the time the cholera was 
there, says, that "after there had 
been one thousand two hundred 
cases, it was found out that not 



128 THE GIANTS. 

a single drunkard who took it 
recovered ; and that almost all 
who DID take it, had been at 
least moderate drinkers." 

There were two hundred and 
four cases of cholera in the Park 
hospital, in New York, at one 
time. Of these, only six were 
temperate people. They all got 
well. Of the rest, one hundred 
and twenty-two died of the dis- 
ease. 

The cholera prevailed very 
badly in the city of Albany, in 
1832. There were then five 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 129 

thousand members of the tem- 
perance society in that city. 
Only TWO of them died of the 
disease. There were twenty 
thousand persons there, not 
members of the temperance so- 
ciety. Among them there were 
three hundred and thirty -four 
deaths from cholera. Only think 
of this. Two deaths out of five 
thousand temperate people, and 

MORE THAN EIGHTY dcaths OUt of 

every five thousand of those who 
were not temperate ! 

These facts prove very clearly 



130 THE GIANTS. 

the point we are considering. 
They show that cold water helps 
to make a man strong and hear- 
ty, and keeps him free from sick- 
ness ; while wines, and brandies, 
and all such drinks, weaken those 
who use them at all, and make 
them more likely to take disease. 
And if those who never take 
enough to be made prisoners by 
this giant, who only venture on 
his grounds and walk about his 
castle, without ever getting fairly 
entrapped, are so much injured 
by the poison that comes forth 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 131 

from his dungeons ; how must 
it be with those who are bound 
captives and kept in those dun- 
geons ? 

Oh ! then, we should fight 
against the giant Intemperance, 
and try to keep clear of him, 

BECAUSE HE IS AN ENEMY TO HEALTH 
AND STRENGTH. 



We should fight against this 

Giant, because he is an enemy to 

SAFETY AND HONOR. 

The giant Intemperance ex- 
poses his prisoners to many dan- 
gers. He makes them unfit to 
take care of themselves. They 
do not know when they are in 
danger, and if they did, they are 
unable to avoid it. When one 

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THE FIFTH GIANT. 133 

of them is walking, you expect 
every minute to see him tumble 
and break some of his bones. 
Look in the paper any morning, 
and you are almost sure to see 
an account of some poor man 
who has been run over by a lo- 
comotive, or drowned by falling 
off the wharf at night ; — and 
nine times out of ten, if you ask 
how it happened, you will find 
that he was a captive of the gi- 
ant. The only wonder is, that 
all his prisoners are not killed 
thus. 



134 THE GIANTS. 

And, of course, if they are un- 
able to care for themselves, they 
are unfit to take any care of 
others. Yet the lives of hun- 
dreds of men and women are 
often put in peril, and sometimes 
lost, by the influence of this gi- 
ant on one or two persons. 

Who would want to trust 
themselves at sea, with a cap- 
tain and crew who were crazy ? 
Who would want to travel in a 
train of cars, if they knew that 
the engineer and conductor were 
either crazy all the time, or sub- 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 135 

ject at any time to spells of cra- 
ziness ? But a drunken man is 
no better than a crazy one. And 
a person in the habit of drink- 
ing, is liable at any moment to 
get drunk, and so to become 
crazy. 

But the use of cold water 
keeps a man from thus losing 
his reason, and so enables him 
to see and avoid dangers. It 
promotes safety. How many 
of the steamboat explosions and 
shipwrecks occurring continually 
might be prevented, if the per- 



136 THE GIANTS. 

sons in charge of them were only 
cold water men ! 

Some time ago there was a 
steamboat plying on one of our 
western rivers. She was called 
the Fame. Captain Gordon, her 
commander, was a temperance 
man, and allowed no liquor to 
be kept, or used, by any of the 
officers or crew. About that 
time a new safety-valve for 
steam engines had been invent- 
ed, which it was thought would 
tend to prevent explosions. It 
was called " Evan's Patent Safe- 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 137 

ty- Valve." A good many peo- 
ple were unwilling to travel in 
any steamboat, unless it had one 
of these valves. One day a gen- 
tleman called on Captain Gordon 
in the cabin of his boat, and toid 
him that he and twenty persons 
in his company were desirous 
of going on in his boat ; "but," 
said the gentleman, " I can't do 
it, neither can my company ; for 
I have been below examining 
your machinery, and I find you 
haven't got ' Evan's Patent Safe- 
ty-Valve' attached to your en- 
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138 THE GIANTS. 

gine. For this reason we can't 
go with you." 

"I shall be very happy to have 
your company," said Captain 
Gordon. "Come below, and I 
will show you the best safety- 
valve in the world." 

They walked down together 
to the engine-room. The cap- 
tain stepped up to his sturdy en- 
gineer, and clapping him on the 
shoulder, said to the gentleman; 
— " There, sir, is my safety- 
valve — the best to be found 
anywhere j — a man who never 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 139 

drinks any thing but pure cold 

WATER I " 

" You are right, captain," 
said the stranger ; "I want no 
better safety-valve than that. We 
will come on board, sir." 

' Some years ago, a fine ship 
called the Neptune, with a crew 
of thirty-six men, sailed from 
the harbor of Aberdeen, in 
Scotland. It was early on a 
fine morning in May, when she 
started, with the fairest prospect 
of good weather and of a pros- 
perous voyage. Not long after 



140 THE GIANTS. 

she had gone, the sky became 
cloudy. The wind changed. It 
came out directly ahead of the 
ship, and went on increasing in 
violence, till it blew a furious 
gale. By and by the Neptune 
was seen standing back towards 
the harbor, right before the wind, 
and with her sails set as though 
it was only blowing a fair, stiff 
breeze. She came bounding on 
before the storm, like a mad- 
dened war-horse. The tidings 
spread like lightning, and hun- 
dreds of people gathered on the 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 1 il 

pier to watch the strange sight. 
Something was wrong on board 
the ship. What could it be ? 
The entrance to the harbor was 
very narrow, and beyond this 
were ledges of dangerous rocks. 
Over these the sea is now break- 
ing in foam and thunder. Right 
on towards them the ship is has- 
tening. What CAN be the matter ? 
The people look on in silent 
horror. Now the ship rises on 
a mountain-wave, — and now she 
plunges into the foaming water. 
An attempt is made to shorten 



143 THE GIANTS. 

sail. It fails. She hastens on. 
A moment more, and hark ! that 
thundering crash ! The cry is 
heard — " She 's lost ! — She 's 
LOST ! " She went to pieces. 
One man alone, of all on board, 
was saved. He lived to tell 
the dreadful secret. The giant 
was on board of that vessel. 
The crew were all intoxicated, 
and could not manage the ves- 
sel. 

Thus we see that, while cold 
water promotes safety, there can 
be no safety where the giant In- 



THE FIFTH GIANT, 143 

temperance is allowed to come. 
He is an enemy to it. 

And he is an enemy to honor, 
too. You can keep your honor 
if you keep to cold water. But 
get into the habit of drinking 
liquor, and your honor will soon 
be turned to shame. The giant 
Intemperance has such a bad 
name among men, that if you 
fall into his power your honor is 
lost. Every thing that is wick- 
ed, vile, and shameful, is asso- 
ciated with our thoughts of this 
giant. And he makes his pris- 



144 THE GIANTS. 

oners so much like himself, that 
the same disgrace is fixed to 
their names. So that no matter 
how honored and respected a 
man has been before, as soon 
as he becomes a captive of this 
giant, he begins to lose his 
honor. 

Men do not like to be called 
DRUNKARDS. The name is a mark 
of disgrace. It points them out 
as prisoners of this giant. But 
every one who drinks wine or 
liquor, is in danger of becoming 
a drunkard, and thus covering 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 145 

himself with shame and dis- 
honor. 

Every thing that is sinful, 
should be considered as a shame 
and disgrace. It's a shame for 
a man willingly to lose all his 
sense and reason, and act like 
a fool; — but this is what the 
drunkard does. It's a shame 
for a man to lose all proper feel- 
ing, and become as hard-heart- 
ed as a stone ; — but this is what 
the drunkard does. It's a shame 
for a man to reel through the 
streets, and wallow in the gutter 



146 THE GIANTS. 

like a pig ; — but this is what the 
drunkard does. It's a shame for 
a man to neglect his business, 
and spend his time in idleness ; 
to leave his children beggars, and 
his wife a broken-hearted widow; 
— but this is what the drunkard 
does. It's a shame for a man 
to gamble, and rob, and murder, 
and commit all kinds of abomi- 
nations ; — but these are what the 
drunkard does. 

Nearly all the people who live 
in our alms-houses, who are sent 
to our penitentiaries, and brought 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 147 

to the gallows, are led there by 
drinking. And those who use 
intoxicating liquors at all, are in 
danger of being led into any or 
all of these evils. Or if not led 
into them themselves, they are 
in danger of leading others into 
them. The giant Intemperance 
carries danger and disgrace with 
him. If you would live in safe- 
ty and honor, put as wide a 
space between yourself and him 
as possible ; — drink nothing that 
intoxicates, but keep to pure 
cold water. 



148 THE GIANTS. 

This, then, is the third reason 
why we should resist this giant 

BECAUSE HE IS AN ENEMY TO 

SAFETY AND HONOR. 



We should fight against this 
Giant, because he is an enemy to 

COMFORT AND HAPPINESS. 

Several years ago, when Bar- 
num's Museum was on the cor- 
ner of Seventh and Chestnut sts., 
Philadelphia, there was, in one of 
the rooms, a representation of a 
cold water drinker's home, and 
of a drunkard's home. These 
were placed side by side, so 

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150 THE GIANTS. 

as to show the contrast more 
strongly. The figures were all 
of wax, and just about the size 
of living persons, so that it 
looked very real. 

The first one represented a 
good sized room, with a neat 
carpet on the floor, and pretty- 
paper on the walls. Two or 
three pictures were hanging 
against the sides of the room. 
A cheerful fire was burning in 
the grate. In the centre of the 
room stood a table with a snow- 
white cloth upon it. A tidy, 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 151 

happy-looking lady was spread- 
ing some very inviting things, for 
breakfast ; while the largest of 
the children was bringing in a 
pitcher of water to fill the tum- 
blers that were placed by every 
plate. An easy arm-chair was 
drawn up near the fire, and the 
father was leaning back in it, 
reading the morning paper, look- 
ing very snug and cosy in his 
wrapper and slippers. Around 
him a group of bright-eyed, 
rosy -cheeked little ones were 
playing, while a toddling boy 



152 _ THE GIANTS. 

was tugging at his father's gown, 
trying to climb up into his lap. 

You did not need any one to 
tell you that comfort and happi- 
ness were there. Every thing 
looked so pleasant, that one al- 
most felt like opening the door, 
and walking in to share their 
happiness. This was the cold 
water drinker's home. 

Right next to it was the other 
scene. It was a room with bare 
floor, strewn with litter, and 
blackened with dirt. The plas- 
ter was falling from the walls 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 153 

and the ceiling. In the fire- 
place there were two or three 
half-burnt sticks, smouldering. 
An old bedstead stood in the 
corner, and a few ragged cover- 
lets lay tumbled in a heap upon 
it. The rest of the furniture 
consisted of a table, and one or 
two rickety chairs. A loaf of 
bread partly cut, and a bottle on 
the table, were the only signs of 
a breakfast. The father, with 
his face unwashed, his beard un- 
shaven, and his hair all tangled 
and matted, was beating a 



154 THE GIANTS. 

trembling child. The rest of 
the children were crowding up 
in the corner, pale and frighten- 
ed, but each holding on to a dry 
crust of bread. Their faces were 
thin, and sickly. The mother 
sat upon the bed, her head be- 
tween her hands, and her hair 
streaming wildly over her shoul- 
ders. Thin and tattered rags 
were the only clothes any of 
them had on. Misery and wretch- 
edness were as plainly seen there, 
as if written with a sunbeam. 
This was the drunkard's home. 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 155 

Children, which is the pleas- 
antest picture ? Which would 
you rather should be your home ? 

All the difference was made 
by the pitcher and the bottle. 
The water in that pitcher had 
kept the giant Intemperance away 
from the first home ; while the 
rum in the bottle had brought 
him into the other one. And it 
was because he was there, that 
all was so wretched. He always 
drives comfort and happiness out 
from every house he enters. He 
turns gladness into sorrow, smiles 



156 THE GIANTS. 

into sighs, laughter into tears, 
wherever he goes. He makes 
his prisoners miserable them- 
selves, and all about them un- 
happy too. Mothers and fathers, 
wives and children, brothers and 
sisters, suffer wherever he comes. 

Let me tell you of a mother's 
sorrow, occasioned by a drunken 
son ; — and of a whole family's 
sorrow, occasioned by a drunken 
husband and father. 

A company of southern ladies, 
assembled in a parlor, were one 
day talking about their different 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 157 

troubles. Each one had some- 
thing to say about her own trials. 
But there was one in the com- 
pany, pale and sad looking, who 
for awhile said nothing. Sud- 
denly rousing herself at last, she 
said : — 

" My friends, you don't any 
of you know what trouble is." 

"Will you please, Mrs. Gray," 
said the kind voice of one who 
knew her story, " tell the ladies 
what you call trouble } " 

" I will, if you desire it ; for, 
in the words of the prophet, * I 



158 THE GIANTS. 

am the one who hath seen afflic- 
tion . ' 

" My parents were very well 
off, and my girlhood was sur- 
rounded by all the comforts of 
life. Every wish of my heart 
was gratified, and I was cheerful 
and happy. 

" At the age of nineteen I 
married one whom I loved more 
than all the world besides. Our 
home was retired ; but the sun 
never shone upon a lovelier spot, 
or a happier household. Years 
rolled on peacefully. Five love- 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 159 

\y children sat around our table, 
and a little curly head still nes- 
tled in my bosom. One night, 
about sundown, one of those 
fierce black storms came on 
which are so common to our 
southern climate. For many 
hours the rain poured down 
incessantly. Morning dawned, 
but still the elements raged. 
The country around us was 
overflowed. The little stream, 
near our dwelling, became a 
foaming torrent. Before we were 
aware of it, our house was sur- 



I GO THE GIANTS. 

rounded by water. I managed, 
with my babe, to reach a little 
elevated spot, where the thick 
foliage of a few wide-spreading 
trees afforded some protection, 
while my husband and sons strove 
to save what they could of our 
property. At last a fearful surge 
swept away my husband, and he 
never rose again. Ladies, no one 
ever loved a husband more; but 
THAT was not trouble. 

" Presently my sons saw their 
danger, and the struggle for life 
became the only consideration. 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 161 

They were as brave, loving boys 
as ever blessed a mother's heart ; 
and I watched their efforts to 
escape, with such agony as only 
mothers can feel. They were 
so far off that I could not speak 
to them ; but I could see them 
closing nearer and nearer to each 
other, as their little island grew 
smaller and smaller. 

" The swollen river raged 
fearfully around the huge trees. 
Dead branches, upturned trunks, 
wrecks of houses, drowning cat- 
tle, and masses of rubbish, all 



1G2 THE GIANTS. 

went floating past us. My boys 
waved their hands to me, and 
then pointed upwards. I knew 
it was their farewell signal; and 
you, mothers, can imagine my 
anguish. I saw them perish ; — 
ALL perish. Yet that was not 
trouble. 

" I hugged my baby close to 
my heart ; and when the water 
rose to my feet, I climbed into 
the low branches of the tree, and 
so kept retiring before it, till the 
hand of God stayed the waters 
that they should rise no further. 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 163 

I was saved. All my worldly 
possessions were swept away ; all 
my earthly hopes blighted. Yet 
THAT was not trouble. 

" My baby was all I had left 
on earth. I labored day and 
night to support him and my- 
self, and sought to train him in 
the right way -, but, as he grew 
older, evil companions won him 
away from me. He ceased to 
care for his mother's counsels ; 
he would sneer at her kind en- 
treaties and agonizing prayers. 
He became fond of drinking. He 



164 THE GIANTS. 

left my humble roof, that he 
might be unrestrained in his evil 
ways. And at last, one night, 
when heated by wine, he took 
the life of a fellow-creature. He 
ended his days upon the gallows ! 
God had filled my cup of sorrow 
before; now, it ran over. That 
was trouble, my friends, such as 
I hope the Lord in mercy may 
spare you from ever knowing ! " 
Boys, girls, can you bear to 
think that you might bring such 
sorrow on your dear father, or 
mother ? If you would not, be 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 165 

on your guard against the giant 
Intemperance. Let wine and li- 
quors alone. Never touch them. 
That was a mother's sorrow. 

Let us look at the sorrow 
brought on a family by the same 
dreadful evil. 

Let me tell you an "old man's 
story." 

Many years ago, a temper- 
ance meeting was held in a cer- 
tain village. A little boy, who 
lived in the village, was very 
anxious to go, and persuaded his 
father to take him. The boy 



166 THE GIANTS. 

never forgot that meeting, and 
he wrote the account of it years 
afterwards. One of the speakers 
at the meeting was an old man. 
His hair was white, and his brow 
furrowed with age and sorrow. 
When he arose to speak, he 
said : — 

" My friends, I am an old 
man, standing alone at the end 
of life's journey. Tears are in 
my eyes, and deep sorrow is in 
my heart. I am without friends, 
or home, or kindred on earth 
It was not always so. Once 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 16T 

I had a mother. With her old 
heart crushed with sorrow, she 
went down to her grave. I once 
had a wife ; — a fair, angel-heart- 
ed creature as ever smiled in an 
earthly home. Her blue eye 
grew dim, as the floods of sor- 
row washed away its brightness ; 
and her tender heart I wrung till 
every fibre was broken. I once 
had a noble boy; but he was 
driven from the ruins of his 
home, and my old heart yearns 
to know if he yet lives. I once 
had a babe, a sweet, lovely babe ; 



168 THE GIANTS 

but these hands destroyed it, 
and now it lives with Him who 
loveth the little ones. • Do not 
spurn me, my friends," continu- 
ed the old man. " There is light 
in my evening sky. The spirit 
of my mother rejoices over the 
return of her prodigal son. The 
injured wife smiles upon him 
who turns back again to virtue 
and honor. The child-angel vis- 
its me at nightfall, and I seem 
to feel his tiny hands upon my 
feverish cheek. My brave boy, 
if he yet lives, would forgive the 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 1G9 

sorrowing old man for treatment 
that drove him out into the 
world, and the blow that maimed 
him for life. God forgive me 
for the ruin I have brought upon 
all that were about me. 

" I was a drunkard. From 
wealth and respectability, I 
plunged into poverty and shame. 
I dragged my family down with 
me. For years I saw the cheek 
of my wife grow pale, and her 
step grow weary. I left her 
alone to struggle for the chil- 
dren, while I was drinking and 



170 THE GIANTS. 

rioting at the tavern. She never 
complained, though she and the 
children often went hungry to 
bed. 

" One New Year's night, I 
returned late to the hut where 
charity had given us shelter. My 
wife was still up, and shivering 
over the coals. I demanded 
food. She told me there was 
none, and then burst into tears. 
I fiercely ordered her to get some. 
She turned her eyes sadly upon 
me, the tears falling fast over her 
pale cheek. At this moment 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 171 

the child in its cradle awoke, 
and uttered a cry of hunger, 
startling the despairing mother, 
and making new sorrow in her 
breaking heart. 

" * We have no food, James ; 
— we have had none for several 
days. I have nothing for the 
babe. Oh ! my once kind hus- 
band, must we starve ? ' 

" That sad, pleading face, and 
those streaming eyes, and the 
feeble wail of the child, mad- 
dened me ; and I — yes, I struck 
her a fierce blow in the face, and 



173 THE GIANTS. 

she fell forward upon the hearth. 
It seemed as if the furies of hell 
were raging in my bosom ; and 
the feeling of the wrong I had 
committed added fuel to the 
flames. I had never struck my 
wife before, but now some ter- 
rible impulse drove me on, and 
I stooped down, as well as I 
could in my drunken state, and 
clenched both my hands in her 
hair. 

" * For mercy's sake, James ! ' 
exclaimed my wife as she looked 
up into my fiendish counte- 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 173 

nance ; — ' You will not kill us ; 
you will not harm Willie ? ' and 
she sprung to the cradle and 
grasped him in her arms. I 
caught her again by the hair and 
dragged her to the door, and as 
I lifted the latch, the wind burst 
in with a cloud of snow. With 
a fiendish yell, I still dragged 
her on, and hurled her out amid 
the darkness and storm. Then, 
with a wild laugh, I closed 
the door and fastened it. Her 
pleading "moans and the sharp 
cry of her babe, mingled with 



174 THE GIANTS. 

the wail of the blast. But my 
horrible work was not yet com- 
plete. 

" I turned to the bed where 
my oldest son was lying, snatch- 
ed him from his slumbers, and, 
against his half-awakened strug- 
gles, opened the door and thrust 
him out. In the agony of fear 
he uttered that sacred name I 
was no longer worthy to bear. 
He called me — father ! and 
locked his fingers in my side- 
pocket. I could not wrench 
that grasp away ; but, with the 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 175 

cruelty of a fiend, I shut the 
door upon his arm, and, seizing 
my knife, severed it at the wrist. 
"It was morning when I 
awoke, and the storm had ceased. 
I looked round to the accus- 
tomed place for my wife. As I 
missed her, a dim, dark scene, 
as of some horrible nightmare, 
came over me. I thought it 
must be a fearful dream, but 
involuntarily opened the outside 
door with a shuddering dread. 
As the door opened, the snow 
burst in, and something fell 



176 THE GIANTS. 

across the threshold with a dull, 
heavy sound. My blood shot 
like melted lava through my 
veins, and I covered my eyes to 
shut out the sight. It was — O 
God ! how horrible ! — it was my 
own loving wife and her babe, 
frozen to death ! With true mo- 
ther's love, she had bowed her- 
self over the child to shield it, 
and wrapped all her clothing 
around it, leaving her own per- 
son exposed to the storm. She 
had placed her hair over the face 
of the child, and the sleet had 



THE FIFTH GIANT, 177 

frozen it to the pale cheek. The 
frost was white on the lids of its 
half-opened eyes, and upon its 
tiny fingers. 

" I never knew what became 
of my brave boy." 

Here the old man bowed his 
head, and wept ; and all in the 
house wept with him. Then, in 
the low tones of heart-broken 
sorrow, he concluded : — 

" I was arrested, and for long 
months I was a raving maniac. 
When I recovered, I was sen- 
tenced to the penitentiary for ten 



178 THE GIANTS. 

years ; but this was nothing to 
the tortures I have endured in 
my own bosom. And now I 
desire to spend the little remnant 
of my life in striving to warn 
others not to enter a path which 
has been so dark and fearful to 
me." 

When the old man had finish- 
ed, the temperance pledge was 
produced, and he asked the peo- 
ple to come forward and sign it. 
The father of the boy referred to 
leaped from his seat, and pressed 
forward to sign the pledge. As 



THE. FIFTH GIANT. 179 

he took the pen in hand, he 
hesitated a moment. 

" Sign it, young man, sign 
it," said the venerable speaker. 
" Angels would sign it. I would 
write my name in blood ten 
thousand times, if it would undo 
the ruin I have wrought, and 
bring back my loved and lost 
ones." 

The young man wrote, — 
" Mortimer Hudson." The old 
man looked. He wiped his eyes, 
and looked again. His face 
flushed with fiery red, and then 



180 THE GIANTS. 

a death-like paleness came over 
it. 

"It is — no, it cannot be; 
— yet how strange ! " he mutter- 
ed. " Pardon me, sir, but that 
was the name of my brave boy." 

The young man trembled, 
and held up his left arm, from 
which the hand had been sev- 
ered. 

They looked for a moment 

in each other's eyes ; and the 

old man exclaimed : — 
" My own injured boy ! " 
The young man cried out : — • 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 181 

" My poor, dear father ! " 
Then they fell upon each 
other's neck and wept, till it 
seemed as if their souls would 
mingle into one. 

Thus we see the misery and 
wretchedness this fearful giant 
Intemperance brings upon the 
drunkard, and upon all his fam- 
ily. If you love those at home, 
make up your minds that you 
will never cause them such sor- 
row and shame. Keep every- 
thing that intoxicates from your 
lips, and you will keep the giant 



182 TEE GIANTS. 

from your home. Do so, be- 
cause HE IS AN ENEMY TO COM- 
FORT AND HAPPINESS. 

Those of you who have read 
ancient history, remember Han- 
nibal, the great Carthaginian 
general. The Romans were the 
enemies of the Carthaginians. 
Hannibal's father had been gen- 
eral for many years, and had 
fought many battles against the 
Romans. He wanted his son to 
feel that they were his enemies, 
and that he must begin early to 
fight them. So, one day, when 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 183 

Hannibal was about nine years 
old, his father gathered all the 
soldiers together. Then he went 
into his tent, and led out little 
Hannibal, and took him to the 
large altar where they used to 
oiFer sacrifices to their gods. 
Upon this altar he made him 
place his hand, and, in the pres- 
ence of the whole army, swear 
that as long as he lived he would 
be an enemy to the Romans, and 
that he would fight against them 
with all his power. 

Hannibal never forgot that 



184 THE GrlANTS. 

promise. He became the great- 
est enemy the Romans ever had. 
Now, my dear children, you 
have a great many enemies. All 
these giants that we have been 
talking about are your enemies. 
They want to capture you, and 
they will try hard to do it. They 
are all strong, and fierce. But 
the last one, the giant Intem- 
perance, is the greatest enemy to 
you of them all. And he is the 
strongest and most cruel of all. 
The sooner you feel this, the 
sooner you will be on your guard 



THE FIFTH GIANT 185 

against him, and the more you 
will learn to hate him. And so 
I want you to do what Hannibal 
did. I want you to determine, 
NOW, while you are young, that, 
as long as you live, you will be 
an enemy of this giant, and fight 
against him with all your power. 
I want you to vow life-long 
WAR against him ! Never make 
peace with him ! Never give 
him any quarter. 

I do not ask you to sign a 
pledge, but I do ask you all to 
resolve solemnly, that, by the 
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186 THE GIANTS. 

help of God, you will never al- 
low yourselves to drink wine, or 
liquor of any kind, unless you are 
sick, and it is given by the phy- 
sician as a medicine. " Touch 

NOT TASTE NOT HANDLE NOT." 

This is the only safe course. 

Those who do not follow this 
rule, often fall into the power 
of the giant Intemperance very 
suddenly, and when they least 
expect it j and, though they may 
escape again, do things, while 
they are his prisoners, that lead 
them into great trouble. 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 187 

A man named John Cafree 
was shot in a fireman's quarrel 
in this city some time ago. The 
man who shot him was not an 
habitual drunkard. He was gen- 
erally a sober, industrious man. 
But on that occasion he was 
tempted to drink too much, and 
now the dreadful guilt of mur- 
der is resting upon him. 

Some years since there was a 
crowd gathered round a gallows, 
to see a young man hung. The 
sheriff took out his watch, and 
said: — " If you have anything 



188 THE GIANTS 

to say, speak now, for you havt 
only five minutes to live." The 
young man burst into tears, and 
said : — " Alas ! and must I die ? 
I had only one little brother. 
He had beautiful blue eyes, and 
flaxen hair, and I loved him. But 
one day I got drunk, for the first 
and only time in my life. On 
coming home I found my broth- 
er gathering strawberries in the 
garden. Without any sufficient 
cause I became angry with him, 
and struck him a blow with an 
iron rake. That blow killed 



THE FIFTH GIANT, 189 

him. I knew nothing about 
what was done till the next 
morning. On awaking from 
sleep I found myself tied, and 
guarded -, and was told that when 
my little brother was discovered, 
he was dead, and his hair was 
clotted with blood and brains. 
Drinking liquor had done it. 
That has ruined me. I never 
was drunk but once, and now I 
am to hang for it. I have only 
one word more to say, and then 
I am going to stand before my 
Judge. I wish to say to young 



190 THE GIANTS. 

people — Never, never, nevei 
touch anything that can intoxi- 
cate." As he spoke these words 
he sprung from the scaffold, and 
was launched into eternity. 

My dear boys, remember this 
warning. " Never touch any- 
thing that can intoxicate." And, 
my dear girls, do you remember 
it too. Don't think that be- 
cause you are females you are in 
no danger. You are in danger. 

In New York they are build- 
ing a house for habitual drunk- 
ards, where they can be treated 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 191 

as sick or insane people are. 
Since this building has been 
started, nearly three thousand 
confirmed drunkards have ap 
plied for admission. Among 
these are between four and five 

HUNDRED FEMALES FROM THE MOST 
RESPECTABLE FAMILIES. AlL pCf- 

sons, who drink wine or liquor 
AT ALL, are in danger both of 
becoming drunkards themselves, 
and of making others drunkards 
by their example. Drink cold 
water, and you are in no danger. 
The giant Intemperance will 



193 THE GIANTS. 

never be able to make you his 
prisoner, if you keep to cold 
water. 

Now, how many giants have 
we spoken of? Five. What was 
the first ? The giant heathen- 
ism. How are we to fight him ? 
By throwing the stones of 
TRUTH AT HIM. What was the 
second ? The giant selfishness. 
How are we to fiight him ? By 
SELF-DENIAL. What was the third ? 
The GIANT covETousNEss. How 
are we to fight him ? By learn- 
ing TO GIVE, what was the 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 193 

fourth ? The giant ill-temper. 
How are we to fight him ? By 

LEARNING TO BE LIKE JeSUS. What 

was the fifth ? The giant in- 
temperance. And how are we 
to fight him ? By drinking 
COLD WATER. We had four good 
reasons why we should fight this 
giant. What are they ? We 
ought to fight him ; because 
cold water is the drink that 
God has made for us : — because 
he is an enemy to health and 



strength ; TO safety AND HONOR J 
TO COMFORT AND HAPPINESS. 



194 THE GLINTS. 

In conclusion, my dear chil- 
dren, I want you all to become 
brave giant fighters. Fighting, 
in general, is poor business. For 
men and women, or boys and 
girls, to be fighting among them- 
selves is a shameful thing. But 
to be fighting these giants is very 
diiFerent. This is proper for girls 
as well as boys ; for ladies as 
well as gentlemen. It is a right 
thing, a brave thing, an honor- 
able thing. But do not try to 
fight them in your own strength, 
or else vou are sure to be beaten 



THE FIFTH GIANT. 195 

David prayed to God to help him 
when he became a giant fighter. 
It was this which made him suc- 
cessful. And you must do the 
same. Pray for Jesus to help 
you. Then go at the giants with 
all your might, and He will 
" teach your hands to war and 
your fingers to fight ;" and will 
bring you ofF, at last, " con- 
querors, and more than con- 
querors." 



WONDERFUL THINGS, 



I. 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF, 



" Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." — Psalm 
xxiii. 4. 



If you are travelling along a rough 
road, or climbing up a mountain, it 
is a great help and comfort to have 
a good strong staff to lean on. 
When persons are travelling in 
Switzerland, they have a particular 
kind of staff, called an alpenstock. 
It is often ornamented at the upper 
end with the horn of a chamois, or 



200 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

Swiss-goat ; while the lower end has 
an iron point fastened to it, so that 
in climbing up, or passing over 
slippery places, travellers, by strik- 
ing it * in the ice, can keep them- 
selves from falling, as they lean on 
it, or steady themselves by it. 

In the verse in which our text is 
found, David is speaking of dying. 
He compares it to walking through 
a dark valley, which he calls " the 
valley of the shadow of death." If 
we had to walk through such a val- 
ley, where there were many deep 
pits and slippery places, it would be 
a great comfort to have a good 
stout staff, by the help of which we 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 201 

could make our way along in safety 
amidst all the surrounding dangers. 
David tells us here that God has 
provided such a staff for His people. 
He says, ''Thy rod and thy staff, 
they comfort me." 

The staff here spoken of means 
the Bible, or the Word of God. 
This is like a staff which God 
wishes His people to lean on. And 
if we learn to use it rightly, we shall 
find it a great help to us. Here, 
then, we have another of the Bible 
Wonders. Our subject now is, — 
The Wonderful Staff. The Bible 
is a wonderful staff because of its 
power to do three things for us. 



202 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

Ill the first place, it is wonderful 

for its POWER TO PROTECT. 

David, who wrote the text, was 
a shepherd before he was a king. 
And in trying to protect his sheep, 
he must sometimes have had very 
hard work to do, and very great 
dangers to meet. There were wild 
beasts in Palestine when David was 
living. One day, while he was 
watching his sheep, a lion sprang 
into his flock, picked up a lamb, and 
walked away with it. David was a 
brave boy. He had a tender, loving 
heart, too. He could not bear to 
think of his dear little lamb being 
torn in pieces, and eaten by the lion. 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 203 

So he jumped up and ran after him. 
That was before fire-arms were in- 
vented. David had no gun. He 
has not told us what arms he had. 
I suppose he certainly had a good 
stout shepherds staff. It is very 
likely that he had also a sort of 
sheath knife, such as our sailors 
have, fastened to a girdle round his 
waist. With no other weapons than 
these, I suppose, he started after the 
lion. Would you not like to have 
seen him fighting the lion? I 
should, very much. We can fancy 
we see it. There is the lion getting 
away as quick as he can. But he 
cannot get on very fast, for the 



204 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

lamb is heavy. And here comes 
David after him, hallooing and 
shouting, and hoping to make him 
drop the lamb, and run off. But the 
lion is hungry, so he holds on to the 
lamb. And now David is close up 
to him. He lifts up his heavy staff 
and hits him a tremendous blow 
on his hollow side. The lamb is 
dropped. The lion turns on David 
with a terrific roar. He is too close 
to spring on him, but he rises on his 
hind feet, and opens his huge jaws 
to devour him. Quick as thought 
David drops his staff. He seizes 
the lion by the beard with his left 
hand, and taking his knife in the 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 205 

right hand, he plunges it into the 
monster's side, again and again, till, 
with a faint growl, the lion falls 
dead to the ground. 

But we have a higher authority 
than David to show us how to use 
God's Word so as to protect us from 
our enemies. Our blessed Saviour 
has left us an example here. He 
had a fight, when He was on earth, 
worse than that of David with the 
lion. You know we read that 
''Jesus was led up of the Spirit into 
the wilderness to be tempted of the 
devil.'' (Matt. iv. i.) That tempta- 
tion was like a fight with Satan. It 
was a long fight. It lasted forty 



206 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

days and forty nights. And the 
only weapon that Jesus made use 
of was this very staff of which we 
are speaking. Every time that 
Satan tempted Him to do what was 
wrong, Jesus answered him with a 
text of Scripture. And when He 
did this it was like hitting him a 
blow with this wonderful staff. He 
made use of the Word of God just 
as a man, when attacked, uses a 
staff to ward off the strokes of his 
enemy, and to hit him, in return, 
stout, staggering blows, that may 
drive him from the field. Jesus 
found God s Word a wonderful staff 
for His own protection. 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 207 

And SO His people often find it. 
I met with an interesting story 
lately, which illustrates this part 
of our subject very strikingly. 

Some years ago there was a for- 
ester, named Grimez, who lived in a 
lonely place in the thick woods of 
the Silesian mountains, in Prussia. 
His family consisted of his wife and 
his mother, with a little daughter, 
about seven years of age. His wife 
and mother were good Christian 
women ; but he himself was not a 
Christian. He did not even believe 
the Bible, and often used to ridicule 
his wife for her prayers, and what he 
called '' her foolish trust in God." 



208 WOXDEREUL TIIIXGS. 

The time to which our story refers 
was a dark and stormy evening in 
autumn. The wind whistled mourn- 
fully through the trees of the forest. 
The two women and the little child 
sat round the fire in their house. 
The forester had not yet come home 
from the neighboring town, to which 
he had gone in the morning. The 
family were beginning to feel very 
anxious about him. And they had 
good cause to feel so. It seemed 
that a band of robbers had been 
infesting that part of the forest of 
late, and had made it very unsafe. 
This forester was the officer of the 
King of Prussia. His duty was to 



THE W ONDERFUL STAFF. 209 

take care of the forest. After long 
efforts he had just succeeded in capt- 
uring all this band of robbers, ex- 
cept their leader. He was a very- 
strong, and cunning, but wicked 
man. And he had vowed to have 
his revenge on the forester and his 
family, for breaking up his band. 
The women of that lonely family 
knew this. No wonder that they 
felt very anxious as they sat round 
the fire on that stormy evening. 
They could think and talk of nothing 
else but the dangers that surrounded 
them, and the absent head of their 
family. 

At last the grandmother said it 

14 



210 • WONDERFUL THINGS. 

would do no good to go on talking 
so, and giving way to their fears ; 
and that it would be much better to 
seek comfort from God s Word, and 
ask the protection of Him, without 
whose will not even a sparrow can 
fall to the ground. 

Then the wife brought out their 
family Bible and read aloud from it 
the seventy-first psalm. These are 
some of the words that she read. 
They were wonderfully appropriate 
to their circumstances: — '* In thee, 
O Lord, do I put my trust ; let me 
never be put to confusion. Be thou 
my strong habitation whereunto I 
may continually resort ; for thou art 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 211 

my rock and my fortress. Deliver 
me, O my God, out of the hand of 
the wicked, out of the hand of the 
unrighteous and cruel man!' 

When the psalm was finished she 
read an evening hymn in keeping 
with the psalm. After singing this 
they knelt down together in prayer. 
They told God about their fears, 
and asked Him to protect them, as 
well as their beloved husband and 
father. They prayed for the poor 
and the sick of their parish ; for all 
evil-doers, and especially for the 
wicked robber in their neighborhood, 
that the Lord would have mercy on 
him, and change his heart, and turn 
him from his evil ways. 



212 WOOT)ERrUL THINGS. 

After this their fears were gone, 
and they felt calm and comfortable. 
They had hardly finished their pray- 
ers, when they heard the well-known 
footsteps of him they were looking 
for approaching the house. He was 
brought home in safety. They were 
all very glad of this ; for while they 
had been so uneasy about him, he 
had been feeling very much the 
same about them, fearing lest the 
robber might come and kill them 
while he was away. So he, too, felt 
very happy to find his family safe 
and well. 

Before they went upstairs to bed 
the forester's wife told him how 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 213 

anxious they had felt about him 
during the evening, and how they 
had prayed to God to take care of 
him and of themselves. He smiled, 
as he had often done before, and 
said she was a foolish woman to 
think there was any use in praying. 
For his part he preferred to trust to 
his good weapons, and to his faithful 
dogs. Then he examined the doors 
and windows to see that they were 
fastened ; he loaded his fire-arms 
and unchained his dogs, and thought 
that he could lie down and sleep 
without any cause for fear. 

Well, an hour or two has passed 
away. All is quiet in the forester s 



214 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

house. The family are fast asleep. 
No sound is heard but the rustling 
of the trees as the wind sweeps 
through them. But hark! what is 
that? There is a movement — a 
quick movement — in the room 
where the forester s family had been 
spending the evening. And now, 
look ; there is a man — a desperate 
looking man — creeping out from 
under the settle, or old wooden 
bench, which stood there. It is the 
robber they were so much afraid of. 
He had managed to steal in about 
sundown, when nobody saw him, 
and to hide himself under the settle. 
There he had heard all that had 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 215 

been said. He had come in to have 
his revenge by murdering the whole 
family in their sleep. He looks 
round carefully on all sides, and 
listens. Not a sound is heard. 
Now there is nothing to prevent him 
from carrying out his purpose. Ah ! 
yes, but there is, though. He goes 
softly and silently to the table. He 
lays down on it a large, sharp knife, 
which he has brought with him. 
The rays of the full moon are shin- 
ing through an opening in the wun- 
dow-shutter into the room. He 
picks up the Bible, which the for- 
ester's wife had read from at their 
evening worship, and which lay there 



216 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

Open still at the seventy-first psalm. 
The words of that psalm have had a 
wonderful effect upon him. He tries 
to read them over again in the fee- 
ble light of the moon ; but it is too 
dark to see them, so he shuts up the 
book. Then he stands by the table 
for a few moments, hesitating what 
he had better do. Two or three times 
he picks up the knife, and resolves 
to have his revenge by plunging it 
into the bosom of the sleepers up- 
stairs. But each time he lays the 
knife down again. Something seems 
to hold him back. He thinks of the 
words of that wonderful psalm, and 
he is afraid to do it. Then he goes 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 217 

to the window and opens it very 
gently. He unfastens the shutter 
without making the slightest noise. 
He leaves the knife on the table, but 
takes the Bible in his hand ; he gets 
up on the window-ledge, and creeps 
out so cautiously that even the 
watch-dogs, which seem to have 
fallen asleep, neither see nor hear 
him. Then he jumps over the gar- 
den hedge, and in a few moments he 
disappears in the dark shadows of 
the wood. 

When the forester and his family 
came down the next morning and 
found the window open, and a great 
sharp knife lying on the table, and 



218 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

the Bible gone, they were, of course, 
very much surprised. They could 
not possibly explain it. The open 
window showed that somebody had 
been in the house. The great knife 
showed that his object had been 
murder; while the missing Bible 
seemed to show that somehow or 
other that had been the means of 
saving them. The whole house was 
searched, yet nothing else was miss- 
ing but the Bible. What did it 
mean ? It was a mystery which no 
one could explain. The pious wife 
thanked God for their protection. 
Even her unbelieving husband could 
not help seeing that it was neither 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 219 

his dogs nor his guns that had saved 
them. He stopped laughing at his 
wife, and began to think that there 
was something in religion after all. 
Nothing more was ever seen of the 
robber in that neighborhood. But 
this is only half the story. The 
other half of it will illustrate another 
part of our sermon. I will give it 
you then. What I have now told 
illustrates this first part very well. 
It shows us how God made use of 
His Word for the protection of that 
family. This was the staff with 
which He drove the murderer away. 
This is indeed a wonderful staff. It 
is wonderful for its power to protect. 



220 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

In the second place, it is wonder- 
ful for its power to comfort. 

If you have a long journey to 
take, and feel faint and weary, it is 
a great help and comfort to have a 
good strong staff that you can lean 
upon. Well, God's Word is like a 
staff for this reason. It gives 
• strength to His people when they 
feel weak and ready to faint under 
their labors or their trials. 

In the early days of Christianity, 
you know, the followers of Jesus 
had to bear a great deal of persecu- 
tion. On one occasion a Christian 
young man was ordered to be tort- 
ured, to make him give up his 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 221 

religion. First, he was hung over a 
slow fire to scorch his feet ; then 
he was bound to a post, and his flesh 
was torn with red-hot pincers. But 
he bore these, and other horrible 
cruelties, without a cry or a groan. 
Finding that he would not give up 
his religion, his enemies let him go. 

When his friends came round him 
they asked him how he could bear 
those dreadful sufferings so patiently. 

H It was painful, indeed," said the 
noble youth, '' but it seemed to me 
as if there were an angel standing 
at my side all the time, who kept 
pointing to heaven, and whispering 
promises like these in my ear: 



222 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

'* Fear not, I am with thee ; I will 
strengthen thee, yea, I will help 
thee/' '' When thou passest through 
the waters, I will be with thee ; when 
thou walkest through the fire thou 
shalt not be burned ; neither shall 
the flame kindle upon thee/' 

That young man was leaning 
on this wonderful stafl", and he 
found that it had powder to com- 
fort him. 

One day a Bible-reader was climb- 
ing up a broken staircase, which led 
to a garret, in one of the worst parts 
of London. When he got up to the 
last landing-place he saw a very 
savage looking man, who stood, 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 223 

with folded arms, leaning against 
the wall. 

'' My friend," said the visitor, hold- 
ing a Bible in his hand, '' here is a 
book that tells us the secret of true 
happiness ; won't you let me read 
out of it a little for you ? '' 

The man looked at him very 
fiercely, and said, '' Get out with 
your nonsense, or Til kick you 
down-stairs." 

He tried to soften him, but in 
vain. 

While this was going on he heard 
a feeble voice, which seemed to come 
from one of the broken doors that 
opened on the landing, saying, 
*' Come in here with your book." 



224 WOXDERFUL THINGS. 

He pushed the door open and 
entered the room. It was a wretched 
looking place. There was no furni- 
ture in it but a three-legged stool, 
and a bundle of straw in a corner. 
On this straw an aged woman was 
lying, with her thin and wasted 
limbs. 

When the visitor entered she 
raised herself on one elbow, and, 
fixing her eyes eagerly on him, she 
said, — 

'' Does your book tell about the 
blood that cleanseth from all sin ? *' 
He sat down on the stool by her 
side and said, — 

'' My poor friend, why do you 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 225 

want to know about the blood that 
cleanseth from all sin ? '' With a 
voice of fearful earnestness, she 
replied, — 

" Why do I want to know about 
it ? Man, I am dying ; I am going 
to stand before God. I have been 
a wicked woman, a very wicked 
woman, all my life. I shall have to 
answer for every thing I have 
done : '' and she groaned bitterly at 
the thought of her sins. " But 
once,'' she went on to say, '' once, 
^some years ago, in passing by the 
door of a church I went in for a 
moment, I don't know why. I 
came out directly, and went away ; 

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226 WONDERFUL THIXGS. 

but one word I heard then I have 
never forgotten. It was something 
about the blood that cleanseth from 
all sin. Tell me, oh, tell me, is there 
any thing in your book about that 
blood ? '' 

The visitor answered her by open- 
ing his Bible, and reading the first 
chapter of the First Epistle of St. 
John, in which occur the precious 
words, '' The blood of Jesus Christ, 
His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." 
The poor creature seemed to devour 
the words as they fell from his lips, 
and when he stopped at the end of 
the chapter, she said : '' Read more, 
read more.'' He read through the 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 227 

second chapter. Then he heard a 
slight noise. On looking round, 
who should he see there but the 
savage looking man who had threat- 
ened to knock him down-stairs, and 
who was the poor woman's son. 
He was listening eagerly, and the 
tears were trickling down his face. 
The visitor read on through the third, 
fourth, and fifth chapters before the 
poor listener would allow him to 
stop. Then she would not let him 
go till he promised to come again 
the next day. He went the next 
day, and every day after for three 
weeks. Every day the son followed 
the visitor into his mother s room, 



228 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

and listened attentively to all that 
was said. Then the poor woman 
died in peace. As soon as she 
understood what was meant by the 
cleansing blood she believed it. She 
felt sure that it took all her sins 
away, and this made her very happy. 
She went down to her grave leaning 
on this wonderful staff, and, oh ! 
how it comforted her ! 

On the day of her funeral, as the vis- 
itor stood by, while they were filling 
up the grave, the son of the poor 
woman beckoned him aside. He, too, 
had found pardon and peace through 
the same precious blood. When he 
had taken the visitor aside he said to 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 229 

him : '' Sir, I have been thinking 
that there is nothing I should like 
so much as to spend the rest of my 
life in telling others of the blood 
that cleanseth from all sin/' 

How natural this was ! He had 
found comfort himself from lean- 
ing on this wonderful staff, and he 
wished to get others to use it too, 
and enjoy the comfort of it. 

He became a Bible-reader and 
visitor among the poor. 

This is a wonderful staff. The 
second reason why it is so is, be- 
cause of its power to comfort. 

// IS a wonderful staff, in the 



230 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

third placCy because of its power to 

SAVE. 

We read in one place in the Bible 
that " the Word of God is able to save 
the souir — James i. 2 1 . And when 
one who felt that he was a sinner 
came to St. Paul, with the question, 
'' What must I do to be saved ? " 
his answer was, '' Believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shaltbe 
saved.'' This means — believe what 
the Bible tells you about Jesus. 
Believe that He died for our sins, 
and that because He did this God is 
ready to pardon and save all who 
are willing to be saved in this way. 
When Paul said to the Philippian 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 231 

jailer, '' Believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ, and thou shalt be saved,'' 
it was just the same as if he had 
offered him this wonderful staff, of 
which we are speaking, and had said 
to him, '' Here, take this staff. Keep 
firm hold of it. Lean all your weight 
upon it, and it will save your soul.'' 
This is the one thing, above all 
others, that makes this a wonderful 
staff. 

And now we have just reached 
the place where the other half of our 
story about the robber and the for- 
ester comes in nicely. 

The robber was never seen or 
heard of in the forest after that 



232 WONDERFUL TIIIXGS. 

night. Sometime after that, in the 
year 1813, there was war among the 
different nations of Europe. The 
French and Prussians were fighting 
against each other. The king of 
Prussia had raised a large army. 
Grimez, our forester, had a position 
as captain in this army. The French 
army had taken a strong position in 
a part of the country where there 
were several lakes, all the shores of 
which were covered with dense woods. 
On the borders of the largest of these 
lakes were several huts inhabited 
by fishermen. The Prussian army 
was ordered to drive the French 
away from that position. This led 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 233 

to a very severe battle. The Prus- 
sians gained the victory, and drove 
the French away. But they gained 
it with the loss of a great many 
men. Among those who fell, on 
that day, was our brave captain, the 
forester. His men thought he was 
killed, and left him on the field for 
dead. But he was only badly 
wounded. After his friends had 
gone he lay groaning in pain among 
the dead. A fisherman was coming 
cautiously up in his boat, to see if a 
little hut of his on the shore had 
been destroyed by the army. He 
heard the groans of the wounded 
man. He rowed his boat to land, 



234 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

and went up to the spot from which 
the cry of pain was heard. 

He found the Prussian officer 
lying in his blood. He gave a low 
whistle, and some of his compan- 
ions came up from the boat. They 
carried the wounded man to their 
boat, and rowed him to the opposite 
shore of the lake, about two miles 
distant. They landed in the neigh- 
borhood of several cottages. Into 
one of these the wounded man was 
carried. The fisherman and his wife 
received him with great kindness. 
They dressed his wounds and nursed 
him with tender care. At first it 
seemed doubtful whether he would 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 235 

recover; but finally the fever left 
him, and he began to get better. 
The fisherman wrote to the captain's 
family to tell them how he was. 
His wife and daughter came to 
nurse him, and be with him. The 
fisherman and his wife gave them 
the use of their cottage, and they 
stayed with one of their neighbors 
till the soldier got well. 

As he lay upon his sick bed he 
could not help thinking of all that 
had happened to him. He thought 
of the wonderful way in which God 
had protected himself and his family 
from the robber on that memorable 
night. He thought of the way in 



236 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

which he had been taken care of, 
when left for dead on the battle 
field. He saw God's hand in it all. 
He was led to pray to Him earnestly, 
and became a Christian. 

And now he was well enough to 
go home. He thanked the kind 
fisherman for all that he had done 
for him, and wished to pay him for 
the great trouble he had caused him. 
But to their surprise he would take 
nothing. When they pressed it on 
him, he said he was much more 
indebted to them than they were to 
him. He said further that he had 
a great treasure of theirs which he 
had once taken away, and now 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 237 

wished to restore. Then he went to 
a closet and brought out a Bible. 
As soon as the forester's wife saw it 
she recognized it as their dear old 
Bible which had disappeared so 
strangely on that night that never 
could be forgotten. She caught it 
eagerly in her hands, and pressed 
it to her bosom. Then the fisher- 
man told them the following story : 
— '* I see you don't recognize me/' 
looking at the forester, '' but I am 
the robber that caused such trouble 
in your neighborhood, till you caught 
my companions, and had them put 
in prison. I was very angry with 
you for this, and swore to have 



238 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

revenge on you. I crept into your 
house about dark one evening, in- 
tending to murder you and all your 
family at night while asleep. All 
that evening I lay under the settle 
in your sitting-room, waiting for the 
hour when I could carry out my 
cruel purpose. Against my wull I 
was obliged to hear the seventy-first 
psalm which your wife read aloud. 
It had a wonderful effect on me. 
When I heard her prayers I felt 
worse still. It seemed as if an 
unseen hand was laid upon me, to 
keep me back from doing what I had 
come to do. I felt that I could not 
do that now. All my desire then 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 239 

was to get that wonderful book and 
read it. I left your house without 
doing what I had gone there to do. 
But I took your Bible with me. I 
thought there must be more words 
of wonder in the book than I had 
heard that evening. For weeks I 
kept hid in the woods near your 
home. The Bible was my com- 
panion in my solitude. As I read it 
I saw what a great sinner I was, 
and what a great Saviour there is in 
Jesus. I sought Him, and found 
Him. That same Saviour who par- 
doned the thief on the cross had 
mercy on me, and received me into 
His kingdom. Then I left that 



240 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

part of the country, and found em- 
ployment with a fisherman in this 
neighborhood. As God had made 
me a new man I wished to begin a 
new life. I am living very happily 
here. My excellent wife is helping 
me to serve God. We have all 
that we want for this world, and a 
blessed hope for the next. And all 
this I owe to the Bible I found in 
your house that evening. You, 
forester, trusted to your guns and 
your dogs. They could not have 
helped you any. Your life and the 
lives of your family were in my 
hand. Nothing but God s Word 
saved you. It was only that which 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 241 

kept my hand from seizing the 
knife and plunging it into your 
bosoms. It was that which pro- 
tected you and your family then ; 
and it is that which has saved you 
from the battle field now. Don't 
thank me ; but thank that merciful 
God who made use of His blessed 
Word to save both you and me.'' 
Such was the fisherman's story. 
The tears that were flowing down 
the faces of the forester and his wife 
showed how much they were affected 
by all God's wonderful goodness to 
them. With full hearts they thanked 
the fisherman for all his care and 
kindness to them. Then they re- 

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242 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

turned to their home a very happy 
family. As they sat round their 
table, on the first night of their 
return, that precious Bible was 
brought out again. The seventy- 
first psalm was read over once 
more ; and as he read it aloud to 
his family the forester thought that 
these words in the psalm seemed 
very surprising : — '* I am as a won- 
der unto many, but Thou art my 
strong refuge. Let my mouth be 
filled with Thy praise, and with Thy 
honor all the day long.'' 

Thus we see how God's Word 
is indeed a wonderful staff It is 
wonderful because of its power to 



THE WONDERFUL STAFF. 243 

do three things. These are, to pro- 
tect — to comfort — to save. 

Be sure you take this staff with 
you, and learn how to use it. Then 
you will be happy here, and happy 
in heaven for ever. 



\ 



11. 

THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 



" As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I com- 
fort you.'' — Isaiah Ixvi. 13. 



The word mother is one of the 
sweetest words in our language. 
It has more power over us than any 
other. It would be easy to give 
many facts to prove this. Let me 
mention one. During the late war, 
a chaplain was going through the 
wards of a hospital, to talk and pray 
with the sick and wounded soldiers. 
Among them was a Scotchman who 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 245 

had been a very wicked man ; he 
would never allow any one to talk 
to him on the subject of religion. 
On coming to his bedside the chap- 
Iain said to him, — " Well, Donald, 
how are you to-day ? '' 

" Better, sir, I thank you." 
'' Shall I read a few verses to you 
from the New Testament ? '* 

Donald turned his face to the wall 
and said nothing. The chaplain sat 
down by his cot and began to sing 
the old Scotch version of the twenty- 
third psalm, — 

" The Lord's my shepherd^ I'll not want, 
He maketh me down to lie 
In pastures green. He leadeth me 
The quiet waters by." 



246 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

Now Donald had been blessed 
with a pious mother. When he 
was a child she had taught him 
to read the Bible, and instructed 
him in its blessed truths. She had 
been a good, kind, loving mother to 
her boy. And though he had not 
followed her teachings, but had for- 
gotten God, and had run to great 
lengths in his wicked ways, yet 
in the midst of all his sinful doings 
he never could forget his mother. 
And the thought of her melted his 
heart in a way that nothing else 
could do. She had been dead, and 
in heaven, for many years. She 
had had a very gentle voice, and 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 247 

sang sweetly the old Scotch psalms; 
and this twenty-third psalm, which 
the chaplain was singing by the 
soldier s bedside, was his mothers 
favorite psalm. Donald had often, 
when a little boy, sat on his mother s 
knee, and leaned his head on her 
loving breast, while she sang that 
sweet and precious psalm. He had 
not heard it for many long years. 
As soon as the chaplain began to 
sing it his heart grew tender. He 
thought of the home of his child- 
hood. He thought of his sainted 
mother, now in heaven. He thought 
of her love for him ; of the tears he 
had seen her shed, and the prayers 



248 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

he had heard her offer for him. He 
thought of all his sins ; and as the 
chaplain went on singing, the big 
tears were fast rolling down his 
cheeks. When the psalm was fin- 
ished, he turned to the chaplain and 
asked for a prayer. So he " told 
him the old, old story of Jesus and 
His love ; '' and then he kneeled down 
and prayed with him. That was 
the turning-point in Donald's life. 
From that time he became a changed 
man. He turned from his wicked 
ways, and tried to live so that he 
might meet his mother in heaven. 
Here we see how God made use 
of the wonderful power of a mother s 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 249 

love and a mother's influence to 
bring back this wandering son into 
the right path. 

When we are children, our mother 
is the one to whom we are accus- 
tomed to run first for comfort if 
any thing troubles us. She is 
always ready to take us into her 
arms ; to listen to the story of our 
griefs ; to wipe our tears gently 
away, and try to make us feel com- 
fortable and happy. 

And this is the reason why God 
compares Himself to a mother, and 
says, '*As one whom his mother 
comforteth, so will I comfort you.'' 
While we are in this world we shall 



250 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

always have trouble of one kind or 
another ; and so we shall always 
need some one to comfort us. But 
our mothers cannot always be with 
us. And even if they could, there 
are many sorrows and troubles in 
which they have no power at all to 
comfort us. And this is the reason 
why God Himself offers to be our 
Comforter. And in doing this He 
promises to be as tender, kind, and 
loving as a mother. This is what 
He means when He says, '* As one 
whom his mother comforteth, so will 
I comfort you.'' 

Here we have another of the 
Bible Wonders. We are to speak 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 261 

now about the Wonderful Comforter. 
God is a wonderful Comforter because 
He is always present ; because He has 
so many to serve Him, and because 
there is so much He can do, that no 
matter what our trouble is. He can 
always help and comfort us under it. 
He can make use of all the angels 
in heaven, and all the people in the 
world, and all the things written in 
the Bible to comfort His people 
when they are in trouble. Oh, God 
is indeed a wonderful Comforter! 
There are many occasions when we 
need comfort ; but I will only speak 
now of three of these, in which God 
proves a wonderful Comforter to 
His people. 



252 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

The first of these is, times of 

DANGER. 

There are so many dangers about 
us in this world, that we always 
need such a Comforter. We cannot 
always see these dangers, and there- 
fore we do not always feel the need 
of a comforter. But as soon as the 
danger appears we must have a com 
forter, or we are wretched. This is 
the reason why Jesus said to His 
disciples,/' I will not leave you com- 
fortless : I will come to you." The 
way in which Jesus comes to His 
people now, to comfort them, is by 
sending His blessed Spirit into their 
hearts. This Spirit helps us to un- 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 253 

derstand what the Bible teaches 
about Jesus, and this gives us com- 
fort. And when the Holy Spirit 
whispers into our hearts some of 
the sweet promises of the Bible in 
a gentle, loving way, then Jesus is 
proving Himself a wonderful Com- 
forter ; and then He is fulfilling the 
promise of the text, when He says, 
*'As one whom his mother comfort- 
eth, so will I comfort you." 

Here is a story about a little girl, 
and how she found comfort when in 
danger. 

One morning a Christian lady, 
who was engaged in teaching, went 
to her pleasant school-room and 



251 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

found many of her scholars absent. 
Two of the little ones, who had been 
in school a few days before, were 
then lying still and cold in death, 
and others were very sick. That 
fearful disease diphtheria had entered 
the village and the school. 

The children were weeping bit- 
terly as the teacher entered, and 
some of them came up to her at 
once, and said, '' O, teacher, Minnie 
and Georgie are dead ! What shall 
we do ? Do you think w^e shall be 
sick and die ? '' 

She gently rang the bell, as a sig- 
nal for opening school, and when 
they had all taken their seats, she 
said, — 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 255 

" Children, you are all alarmed on 
account of this terrible disease. You 
are grieving for the death of your 
schoolmates, and are fearing lest 
you too may be taken. Some of 
you have asked me, ' What shall we 
do ? ' I know of only one way to 
escape this trouble, and that is to 
hide from it. If you will listen I will 
read to you about a hiding-place/' 

They all listened attentively while 
she read the ninety-first psalm. It 
begins in this way : — *^ He that 
dwelleth in the secret place of the 
Most High shall abide under the 
shadow of the Almighty. I will say 
of the Lord, He is my refuge and 



256 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

my fortress ; my God, in Him will 
I trust. He shall cover thee with 
His feathers, and under His wings 
shalt thou trust; His truth shall be 
thy shield and buckler," etc. The 
teacher did not say a word about 
the psalm, but she offered a short 
prayer in which she asked God 
to comfort them all in that time of 
danger. The scholars all seemed 
hushed by the sweet words of the 
psalmist, and the lessons went on 
as usual. 

At noon a sweet little girl named 
Lizzie came to her, and said, — 
''Teacher, are you afraid of the 
diphtheria?" 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 257 

'' No/' said the teacher. 

"Well, but shouldn't you, if you 
thought you should get sick, and 
die?'' 

'' No, dear, I trust not," was the 
reply. 

Lizzie stopped questioning, and 
looked her teacher full in the face 
for a few minutes with thoughtful, 
wondering eyes ; then her face 
brightened a little, and she said, — 

'' Oh, I know now, I know why 
you are not afraid. You are hiding 
under God's wings, that you read 
about in the psalm this morning. 
What a nice hiding-place that must 
be ! I thought as you read the 

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258 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

chapter, how I should like to hide 
there too ! Then I should not be 
afraid of diphtheria, or any thing 
else/' And Lizzie s eyes filled up 
with tears, as she asked, — 

'' O, teacher, is there room for me 
there ? '' 

"Yes, Lizzie," was the answer, 
*' there's room for you, and for every 
one who wishes to come. Jesus, 
whose wings make this hiding-place, 
longs to kide you in His arms, to 
clasp you to His heart, and to wash 
you from your sins in His own 
blood. And though He is used to 
hear the songs of thousands of 
angels up in heaven, yet it will be 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 259 

sweeter than the music of their 
songs to hear your child-like voice 
whispering to Him, ' Jesus, Thou 
art my hiding-place ! ' Will you not 
say these words with your whole 
heart?'' 

"/ wi//,'' was Lizzie's soft, but 
decided answer. She made Jesus 
her hiding-place that day. And 
*' as one whom his mother comfort- 
eth, so did God comfort her.'' 

God is a wonderful Comforter in 
times of danger. 

Bu^ He is sOy secondly y in times 

OF WANT. 

These times come very often. 



260 WOXDERFUL THIXGS. 

We are always in want of something 
or other. Every moment that we 
live our breasts are rising and fall- 
ing. What are we doing, all the 
time, that keeps up this motion? 
Breathing. And what do we 
breathe ? Air. Could we live with- 
out air? No. Could I speak to 
you without air? No. Could you 
hear me without air ? No. So you 
see we w^ant air all the time. But 
could we live on air alone? When 
hungry, if you were told to go and 
take a good dinner of air, would that 
satisfy you ? No. When we are 
hungry what do we want ? Food. 
And when v/e are thirsty w^hat do 



THE WOXDERFUL COMFORTER. 261 

we want ? Water. And when cold 
weather comes, and we are almost 
naked, what do we want ? Clothing. 
But these things we can generally 
get without much trouble. God has 
made the air so plenty that we can 
get as much as we want without 
paying any thing for it. It is in the 
streets. It comes into our houses 
and churches. It is about us 
wherever we are, by night and by 
day, so that even when we are 
asleep we can get as much air as we 
need. Food and clothing are not 
quite so plentiful as air. We have 
to work for them. Yet when we 
are well, if we are industrious 



262 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

and careful, we can generally secure 
them. 

But sometimes sickness comes, 
and we are not able to work. Or 
even if not sick, we may not be able 
to get work to do. Then we can 
buy neither food nor clothing. And 
when our children have to go hun- 
gry to bed, because there is nothing 
in the house for them to eat ; when 
they wake in the morning, crying 
for bread, and there is none to give, 
then that is a time of want indeed. 
And at such times Jesus is a won- 
derful Comforter to His people. 

Now let me give you a story to 
show what a wonderful Comforter 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 263 

Jesus is to His people in times of 
want. It is a story about "The 
Last Dollar.'' 

Some years ago there was a min- 
ister who had charge of a little 
church in a mountain village of 
New England. He was poor, and 
ministered to a congregation in 
which were no rich people. He 
had a wife and three children. 
Though often in great poverty he 
had never been reduced to his last 
dollar. But now this was his sad 
case. He handed it to his wife, 
with a sigh, and said, — 

" It is our last dollar, my dear. 
But the Lord will provide.'' 



264 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

" You Ve always been saying that, 
husband/' said his wife, as the tears 
filled her eyes ; '' but what is to 
become of us when this is gone? 
They won't trust us any more at the 
store ; and your salary won't be due 
for three weeks, even if you get it 
then. Why do you stay here, 
James, when we can't get bread for 
our children ? " 

" I have no other place to go to," 
said her husband, " nor money to 
travel with, if the way was open. 
My work for the present is here. 
The Bible tells us that God ' feedeth 
the young ravens.' Let us trust 
Him, dear Mary. Surely He will 
take care of us." 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 265 

" I wish I had faith like yours, 
James/' said his wife ; '' but I haven't, 
and it won't come to me. Oh ! 
what shall I do for my poor chil- 
dren?" she cried, in tones of deep 
distress. 

'' David said, ' I have been young, 
and now am old,' " replied her hus- 
band, '' ' yet saw I never the righteous 
forsaken, nor his seed begging their 
bread.' That promise has never 
failed yet, and I don't believe it will 
fail now. Let us trust God, my dear 
wife, and not be afraid." 

Just as he ceased speaking there 
was a sudden knock at the door. 
While this conversation was going 



266 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

on between the minister and his 
wife, a violent storm had been 
raging outside. On opening the 
door, a traveller, wet through with 
the rain, entered the room. 

'' I was coming through the for- 
est,'' said he, '' w^hen overtaken by 
the storm, and ventured to stop at 
the first house I saw for shelter. 
My horse is in the stable. I hope 
I have not taken too great a 
liberty?'' 

'' O, by no means, my dear sir," 
said the minister. '' We have but a 
poor shelter, as you see ; but such 
as it is you are welcome to it ; here 
is a good fire at any rate to dry your 
wet things." 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 267 

It was in the kitchen where this 
conversation took place. They could 
only afford to keep one fire ; so that 
room had to serve them as kitchen/ 
dining-room, and study. . 

The stranger proved to be an 
educated, wealthy gentleman. The 
minister had a long talk with him 
about many things of which he did 
not feel at liberty to speak to any of 
the people of his church. 

At last the storm was over. 
The stranger having thoroughly 
dried his clothing, rose to go. He 
thanked the good man and his wife 
for the shelter kindly afforded him. 
The minister brought out his horse, 



268 WONDEEFUL THINGS. 

;Went with him to the gate, and, 
after bidding him good-by, stood 
and watched him till he disappeared 
behind a turn of the road. 

Then he went back into the house. 
As soon as he entered the room, his 
wife said, '' See here, James, I found 
this on the table near where the 
gentleman sat." 

It was a fifty dollar note, wrapped 
hastily up in a bit of paper that 
looked as if it had been torn from 
a pocket-book, and on the inside of 
the paper was written the verse from 
the psalms which the minister had 
repeated to his wife just before the 
knock was heard. '' I have been 



THE WONDEEFUL COMFOKTER. 269 

young, and now am old, yet saw I 
never the righteous forsaken, nor his 
seed begging their bread/' The 
stranger had overheard what had 
been said, and he had left this 
money to show that God was still 
faithful to His promises. 

'' I thought he was wTiting the 
direction he asked me for,'' said 
the minister. '' He means this for 
us. Thanks be to the Lord ! Did 
I not tell you, my dear, He would 
provide ? " 

His wife burst into tears. 

'' God forgive me ! " she said. " I 
never will doubt Him again. The 
Lord surely sent this stranger to 
help us." 



270 WOXDEKFUL THINGS. 

''And He will still provide/' said 
her husband. "Whatever my lot 
may be, here or elsewhere, in Him 
will I trust/' 

About a month after this, a letter 
came one day to the post-office of 
that village, addressed to this minis- 
ter, whose name was the Rev. James 
Spring. When he opened it, he 
read as follows : — 

" Rev. and Dear Sir : — The 
church at Maryville has unani- 
mously chosen you to be its pastor. 
The salary is fifteen hundred dollars, 
and a good parsonage.'' 

The letter then went on to say that 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 271 

" the writer first came to know you by- 
seeking shelter in your house during 
a storm, a few weeks since. He 
overheard you, in a time of great 
distress and want, speak with such 
firm faith in the promises of God s 
Word, that he feels sure you are just 
the person to take charge of this 
church, and it is on his recom- 
mendation that you have been 
called." 

Maryville was the county town, a 
rich and thriving place, in the midst 
of a broad and fertile valley at the 
foot of the hills, up among which 
this good minister had been labor- 
ing for several years in poverty and 



272 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

want. He was very successful and 
happy in his new parish, and always 
had money enough to provide what 
was necessary for the comfort of his 
family. He never forgot the lesson 
God taught him on that stormy day. 
And often when he met with people 
who showed a want of faith he 
would tell them the story of his 
Last Dollar. 

This story beautifully illustrates 
the point before us. It was a time 
of want to that minister and his 
family, when their money was spent 
and there was no prospect of more 
for weeks to come. But, '' as one 
whom his mother comforteth, so did 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 273 

God comfort them." And see how 
much pains He took to do it! If 
God had sent an angel from heaven 
to take a fifty dollar note and place 
it on that ministers table, or put 
it into his hands and say, ''The 
Lord of heaven sends you this," 
that would have seemed very won- 
derful. And yet I think the way 
in which He did send it was still 
more wonderful. It would have 
been easier for God, as it seems to 
us, to have sent an angel to carry 
this money to the minister than to 
have sent it in the way He did. As 
it was, God had to send this gentle- 
man on a journey through that part 

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274 WOXDERFUL THIXGS. 

of the country on that very day. 
He did not know the minister, and 
had no intention of stopping at his 
house. So God sent that storm to 
burst and beat upon the traveller, in 
order to bring him, drenched and 
dripping wet, to the door at the pre- 
cise time when the minister was 
speaking to his wife of his trust in 
God. If he had come five minutes 
sooner or later he would not have 
heard what he did ; and the family 
would not have received the help 
they needed. 

These things did not come by 
chance. There is no such thing 
as chance, or luck. God orders 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 275 

every thing. God ordered this trav- 
eller to go on his journey. He 
ordered him when and where to go. 
He ordered the storm when to rise 
and when to burst. He ordered all 
things connected with it in such a 
way as to bring the stranger to the 
door at the very moment when this 
good man was telling of his simple 
trust in God. This clearly shows 
what pains, so to speak, God took 
in order to comfort His servant in 
that dark and trying hour. Just so 
a mother acts. She gives all she 
has ; she does all she can to help 
and comfort her child. And this is 
what God means when He says, 



276 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

'' As one whom his mother comfort- 
eth, so will I comfort you/' 

In times of want, God is a wonder- 
ful Comforter. 

Bu^, thirdly y God is a wonderful 
Comforter in times of sorrow. ^ 

This world is often called " a 
world of sorrow/' It may well be 
called so, because there is much sor- 
row in it. When you kindle a fire 
you know how soon the sparks 
appear, and how they keep flying 
upwards as long as the fire burns. 
And the Bible tells us that it is 
as natural for people in this world 
to have sorrows as it is for sparks 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 277 

to appear while the fire is burning. 
When Jesus was on earth He was 
spoken of as " a Man of sorrows!' 
We cannot pass through this world 
without having sorrow. Some per- 
sons have more sorrow than others, 
but every one must have some. 
Listen to these four lines about 
sorrow. They were written by a 
good man many years ago. He had 
a great deal of sorrow himself, and 
what he says about sorrow in these 
lines is just as true as any thing in 
the Bible : — 

" The path of sorrow, and that path alonCy 
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; 
No trav'ler ever reached that blest abode 
Who found not thorns and briers on his road." 



278 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

'' Thorns and briers '' here, mean 
troubles and trials, — the things that 
occasion us sorrow. 

Many persons have sorrow in this 
world on account of the pain and 
suffering which sickness causes. 
Others have sorrow on account of 
the loss of their children or parents, 
their relatives or friends. Parents 
often have sorrow on account of the 
bad conduct of their children. Some 
persons have sorrow because they 
are so poor that they cannot get 
what they need ; while others, again, 
have sorrow because they cannot 
keep what they have got. And we 
must all have our share of sorrow 



THE WONDEEFUL COMFORTER. 279 

in one way or another. And if this 
is true, then it is very important that 
we should have a friend who can 
give us comfort when sorrow comes. 
And Jesus is just the Friend we need 
for this purpose. He is a wonderful 
Comforter in times of sorrow. If 
we are loving and serving Him, 
He says to each of us, ''As one^ 
whom his mother comforteth, so will 
I comfort you.'' 

Let me give you an example or 
two of the way in which Jesus 
comforts His people in times of 
sorrow. 



280 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

THE BIBLE IN A COAL MINE. 

In one of the coal mines of Eng- 
land, a youth, about fifteen years of 
age, was working by the side of his 
father, who was a pious man, and 
brought up his family, as the apostle 
says, '' in the nurture and admonition 
of the Lord/' 

The father was in the habit of 
carrying with him a small pocket 
Bible ; and the son, who had received 
one at the Sunday-school, followed 
the good example of his father in this 
matter. Thus he always had God s 
blessed Word with him, and when- 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 281 

ever he had a little time to rest from 
his labor, he read it by the light of 
his lamp. 

They were working together once 
in a newly-opened section of the 
mine, and the father had just stepped 
aside to get a particular tool that he 
wanted, when the arch above them 
suddenly fell down between him and 
his son. The father was greatly 
alarmed, for he supposed that his 
poor boy had instantly been crushed 
to death. He ran towards the place 
and called to his son, who presently 
answered his call from beneath a 
dense mass of earth and coal. 

'' My son,'' cried the father, '' are 
you living?" 



282 WOXDERFUL THINGS. 

''Yes, father; but my legs are 
under a rock/' 

*' Where is your lamp, my boy ? '' 

'' It is still burning, father/' 

''What are you doing, my dear 
son ? and how do you feel ? " 

'' I am reading my Bible, father, 
and the blessed Saviour is strength- 
ening and comforting me/' 

These were the last words of that 
dear boy. For very soon his lamp 
went out, and he died for the want 
of fresh air, and went into the pres- 
ence of that Saviour whom he loved. 

It was a very sorrowful position 
in which this poor boy found himself, 
so suddenly and unexpectedly. His 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 283 

father or mother, his teacher or min- 
ister, could do nothing to comfort 
him then. But Jesus came near, in 
the darkness of the mine, as he lay 
crushed beneath the rock, and '' as 
one whom his mother comforteth, so 
did He comfort him/' 

Here is an example of a little girl 
whom Jesus comforted in a time of 
sorrow. Her name was Nellie. In 
going along the street one day she 
met with a sad accident. Some 
foolish boys were amusing them- 
selves with throwing stones. One 
of these struck Nellie on the eye, 
and hurt her very much. She was 
in such pain that she had to be 



284 WOXDERFUL THINGS. 

carried home. Her father sent for 
the doctor. He carefully examined 
the wounded eye, and then said that 
she would have to undergo a very 
painful operation. When the time 
came for the operation she was sit- 
ting on her fathers knee. He said 
to her, — 

'* Nellie, my dear, are you ready?'' 

'' Not quite, father,'' she replied. 
'' I should like to wait a minute ; I 
have not yet prayed to God." 

Then with her little hands folded 
together, she offered this simple 
prayer : — 

'' O Lord, forgive the little boy 
who hurt me, and help me to bear 



THE WONDERFUL COMFORTER. 285 

the pain well ; and may Jesus be 
with me. Amen.'' 

Then she said, '' Father, I am 
ready now.'' And she bore the pain 
of the operation without a cry, so 
that all who were present looked on 
with surprise and astonishment at 
her great patience. But it was 
Jesus who was with her, and helped 
her to bear the pain so well. '' As 
one whom his mother comforteth, so 
did He comfort her" in her time of 
sorrow. 

Jesus is a wonderful Comforter in 
times when we most need comfort. 
These are times of danger — times 
of want — and times of sorrow. 



286 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

And these are things we must all 
meet. But Jesus is the only one 
who can give us real comfort when 
we meet them. Unless we know 
Jesus, and make Him our friend, we 
shall be like the soldier who goes to 
battle without weapons ; or like the 
sailor who goes to sea without an 
anchor. Let us give ourselves to 
Jesus, and love and serve Him now, 
and we shall find that He is a won- 
derful Comforter. And in all our 
times of danger, want, and sorrow, 
we shall hear Him say: "As one 
whom his mother comforteth, so 
will I comfort you/' 



III. 

THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 

** I will guide thee with mine eye." — Psalm xxxii. 8. 

If we had to travel through a san- 
dy desert or a vast wilderness, in 
which were no beaten paths, it 
would be most important for us to 
have a guide ; or if we had to go 
through a dark cavern, like the 
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, in 
which there were many winding 
paths and dangerous pitfalls, we 
should certainly lose our way, and 



288 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

very probably our lives also, unless 
we had a guide. 

Now, the world in which we live 
may well be compared to a dark 
cavern, and we never can make our 
way safely through it unless we 
have a guide who can both point out 
the right path and also give us light 
that we may see how to walk in it. 

But it is not only in dark caverns 
that guides are necessary. Often 
when travelling in the clear light of 
day we may lose our way if we vent- 
ure without a guide. 

I remember a case of this kind 
occurring when I was in Switzerland. 
We had made arrangements one 



TIIE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 289 

evening to go on foot, the next day, 
across one of the Swiss mountains. 
While we were engaging our guide 
an English gentleman joined us. 
He was travelling alone, and in- 
tended to go over the same moun- 
tain the next morning. He inquired 
what was the charge for a guide ; 
but thinking the terms too high, he 
said '' he didn't care to take a guide ; 
that he was not afraid, but believed 
he could find the way by himself.'' 
The next morning he started an 
hour or two before us. And when 
we were half way over, in one of 
the wildest parts of the mountain, 
where there was nothing that we 

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290 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

could see to show the path, our 
guide stopped and pointed out a man 
who had missed the track, and wan- 
dered far, far aw^ay in the wrong 
direction. It proved to be the trav- 
eller who had been so sure he could 
find the way without help. Our 
guide said there was no outlet in the 
direction he was going ; and that if 
he went on much further he would 
surely perish. Then, in his good 
nature, the guide climbed a high 
point on the side of the mountain, 
and cried out, with a voice like a 
trumpet, ''Come back! come back!'' 
The wanderer heard the friendly call. 
He retraced his steps and was saved. 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 291 

Now, if we start in the journey of 
life without a guide we shall be sure 
to go astray, and wander from the 
right path. 

We shall find many guides offer- 
ing their services, but who will only 
lead us on to ruin. We are better 
without them. The only safe guide, 
on whom we may always rely with 
confidence, is Jesus, our Saviour. 
He offers Himself to us for this 
purpose. It is He who says, so ten- 
derly, in the language of our text, 
'' I will guide thee with mine eye.'' 

What wonderful power there is 
in the eye ! How much can be said 
through it, without opening the lips 



292 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

to speak ! Love, hatred, pleasure, 
pain, joy, and sorrow, may all be 
expressed by looks as well as by 
words. 

You remember the night in which 
Jesus was betrayed. After Peter 
had three times denied that he knew 
his Master, we read that " The Lord 
turned and — looked — on Peter." 
What meaning there was in that 
look ! 

It reminded Peter of the boast- 
ing promise he had so confidently 
made a little while before, when he 
solemnly declared his readiness to 
die for his Master, and his purpose 
never to leave Him, though all men 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 293 

should forsake Him. As the waters 
burst out from the rock in the wil- 
derness, when smitten by the rod of 
Moses, so the tears of Peter's peni- 
tence gushed forth under the power 
of that look; and, as we read, ''he 
went out and wept bitterly/' 

The words of this text set Jesus 
before us as — '' The Wonderftd 
Guided 

Jesus has three things that He 
makes use of in guiding His people, 
and which show us what a wonderful 
Guide He is. 

In the first place, He has a won- 
derful EYE. 



29i WONDERFUL THINGS. 

*' I will guide thee with mine eye." 
The eye is the emblem of knowledge. 
And the Bible tells us that '' the eye 
of the Lord is in every place, behold- 
ing the evil and the good." 

This wonderful eye, that takes all 
things in, shows what perfect knowl- 
edge Jesus has for guiding His peo- 
ple. 

It is important for a guide to have 
a clear and proper knowledge of every 
thing the persons he is guiding 
will need in their journey. Suppose 
you start on a journey. At night it 
becomes very cold ; but your guide 
has provided no warm clothing, and 
made no preparations for a fire ; then 



THE WONDERFUL COMFOHTER. 295 

how much suffering there will be! 
or suppose there is a river to be 
crossed, and you have no means of 
crossing it, w^hat trouble that w^ill 
cause ! or suppose that your journey 
is to last for several days, and your 
guide, not knowing that it is impos- 
sible to procure food on the way, 
neglects to take a full supply of such 
things as you will need, how much 
suffering must follow ! 

But if we take Jesus for our 
Guide, in the journey of life which 
is before us, we need fear none of 
these things. '' He seeth the end 
from the beginning/' He knows 
every thing that we can need through 



296 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

the whole course of our journey. 
His wonderful eye takes in, at a 
glance, the guidance which His 
people need, and He leads them in 
the right way. 

Here is an example of the way in 
which He does this. 

A young man had occasion to go 
to a distant city. The business 
w^hich called him there was impor- 
tant. It was necessary, in order to 
accomplish it, that he should reach 
the end of his journey by a certain 
time. He was travelling alone, on 
horseback, through a wild part of 
the country that w^as very thinly 
settled. He had not clear directions 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 297 

respecting the road ; and when he 
was half way through the journey, 
he unexpectedly found that the road 
forked into two branches, running 
in different directions. This was a 
difficulty for which he was not pre- 
pared. He looked around for some 
friendly house or hut, where he 
might learn which road to take. 
But there was none. For miles 
beyond he saw nothing but the deep, 
dark forest ; and before him lay 
the two different roads. If he took 
the wrong one, or even if he re- 
turned to the nearest house to 
inquire, it would be too late to ac- 
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298 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

hand. Here was a difficulty. What 
should he do ? He had been taught 
by a Christian mother. He knew 
that God had promised to guide 
His people in every time of trouble. 
So he lifted up his heart in earnest 
prayer to God to show him the right 
ivay. And as his thoughts went up 
towards heaven, it was natural for 
him to look in the direction in which 
his thoughts were led. And as his 
eyes were thus lifted up he saw some- 
thing half hidden by the leaves of the 
trees. When he had finished his 
prayer he drew near to examine the 
object which had attracted his atten- 
tion. It proved to be 2. guide-board! 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 299 

We can imagine his surprise and joy 
as he read there, in plain, bold letters, 
the direction which gave him the 
guidance he so much needed. It said 
to him, as plainly as a voice from 
heaven, '' This is the way ; walk 
thou in it/' He remembered the 
promise in the Bible in which God 
says to His people : '' Before they 
call, I will answer ; and while they 
are yet speaking, I will hear/' (Is. Ixv. 
24.) His heart overflowed with 
grateful love and wonder, to think 
how truly that sweet promise had 
been fulfilled in his case ; and he 
went on his way rejoicing. He 
reached his destination in time to 



800 WOXDERFUL THINGS. 

attend successfully to his business. 
Hitherto he had not been a decided 
Christian, but from that day he 
began to love and serve God. 

Here we see how, with His won- 
derful eye, Jesus guided this young 
man when he knew not which way 
to go. He looked up to Him for 
direction, and he found it. Jesus is 
a wonderful Guide. The first thing 
which He has in guiding His peo- 
ple is a wonderful eye. 

The second thing which yesushas 
in guiding His people is a won- 
derful HAND. 

Now, as the eye represents knowl- 



THE WONDERFUL COMFOETER. 301 

edge so the hand represents power. 
And it is because Jesus has a won- 
derful eye to see what His people 
need, and a w^onderful hand to 
enable Him to supply their need, 
that He is such a wonderful Guide. 
He makes use of His eye and His 
hand, His knowledge and His power, 
to guide and help His people. Let 
me show you how He does this. 

Many years ago, Admiral Williams 
was crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 
command of a frigate belonging to 
the English navy. The course he 
was sailing brought him within 
sight of the Island of Ascension. 
This is a small, barren island, about 



302 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

eight miles in length and six in 
breadth, lying between Africa and 
Brazil. Until the Emperor Napo- 
leon Bonaparte was imprisoned on 
the Island of St. Helena, this island 
was uninhabited. Then the English 
government built a fort on it, and 
the soldiers cultivated it. But the 
time to which our story refers was 
before this. No one lived on the 
island then, and ships never stopped 
there, unless they wanted to get a 
supply of turtles, as they were 
always to be found along the shores 
in great numbers. 

But the admiral was not in want 
of turtles for his crew. Yet no 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 303 

sooner did the island, in the far dis- 
tance, appear in sight, than a strange 
desire came over him to go out of 
his course, and steer towards it. 

He felt sure if he did so, that his 
officers and crew would think it 
very strange, as he could give no 
reason for changing the ship's course. 
He tried to throw off this feeling, 
but could not do it. The desire 
grew stronger and stronger, and at 
last he made up his mind to follow 
this strange impression, and see to 
what it would lead. 

Calling his lieutenant, he ordered 
him to get ready to put the ship 
about, and steer for the Island 



804 WOXDEEFUL THINGS. 

of Ascension. The officer vent- 
ured respectfully to suggest to the 
admiral how much this would delay 
them, and to ask what would be 
gained by this change of course. 
The admiral said he could not tell, 
but that he felt a strong desire 
to go. 

'' Sir," said the lieutenant, '' the 
men are just going to dinner; shall 
the order be delayed till they get 
through? " 

Without further reply, the admiral 
himself gave the order, which is 
never disobeyed on ship-board : 
" Readv, about ! " 

At once the men sprang to their 



THE AYONDERFUL GUIDE. 305^ 

stations. The vessel was put about ; 
and directly was making her way 
towards the distant island. 

All on board wondered what this 
meant, and why the ship was chang- 
ing her course to visit an uninhabi- 
ted island. As they drew near all 
were on the lookout, and every eye 
was eagerly turned towards the 
island. Soon those who had the best 
glasses were greatly excited about an 
object on shore, which at first they 
could not make out. '' It's some- 
thing white,'* said one. *' It s a 
flag ; it s a signal,'' said another. It 
was a signal of distress, and they 
soon saw men upon the island. 

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S06 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

When they came near, the ship 
'' hove to/' and a boat was sent 
ashore. In a little while the boat 
returned, bringing with her sixteen 
men who had been cast ashore on 
that island some days before. The 
want of food had caused them ex- 
treme suffering; and knowing that 
the island was rarely visited by pass- 
ing vessels, they had done all that 
could be done in setting up their 
signal on the highest point of the 
coast, and praying earnestly that 
God would send them relief. Solo- 
mon tells us that " the heart of a 
king is in the hand of the Lord, and 
He turneth whithersoever He will, 



THE WOXDERFUL GUIDE. 807 

as the rivers of water are turned." 
And we have a beautiful illustration 
of this truth, when we see how God s 
hand turned the heart of this good 
sailor to do what He wished to have 
done. And it is because God has 
power over the hearts of all men, 
that He can use His wonderful hand 
to guide His people in all their 
ways. 

The second thing that Jesus has 
to help Him in guiding His people 
is a wonderful hand. 

The third thing that He has to 
help Him in guiding His people is 

A WONDERFUL BOOK. 



308 WOXDERFUL THIXGS. 

When we travel through foreign 
countries we always need a guide- 
book. This book will tell us the 
distances from one place to another ; 
the best roads, the best places at 
which to stop, and all we need to 
know, in order to make the journey 
both safe and comfortable. 

And Jesus has such a book for 
the use of those who wish to be 
guided through this world, and 
brous^ht safe to heaven at last. The 
Bible is this book. It is a wonder- 
ful book for many reasons ; and of 
these the chief is its wonderful 
power to guide lost sinners to Jesus. 
Let me give you one or tw^o illustra- 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 309 

tions to show how wonderful the 
Bible is in its guiding power. 

A few years since there was a 
terrible war in India. It was caused 
by the mutiny or rebellion of the 
native troops belonging to the Eng- 
lish government. A Christian lady, 
living in India, spent much of her 
time in visiting the sick and wounded 
soldiers in one of the hospitals. One 
day, while reading to the sick men, 
she was interrupted by some Scotch 
soldiers coming in to say good-by to 
their wounded and suffering com- 
rades. Before they left she spoke a 
few kind and solemn words to them, 
reminding them of the danger to 



310 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

which they would be exposed, and 
the importance of being always pre- 
pared to die. Then she read to 
them the twenty-third psalm, and 
commended them to God in prayer. 
As they shook hands with her in 
parting, the soldiers, one by one, 
asked for a little book, or tract. 
Opening her satchel, she gave one 
to each. But just as she reached 
the last of them her supply failed 
and she had none to give him. He 
begged so earnestly for a parting 
token, that, taking a blank leaf of 
paper from one of her books, she 
wrote upon it several texts of Script- 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 311 

ure, with a verse or two of the hymn 
beginning, — 

" How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, 
In a believer's ear." 

Handing him this leaf, she said 
she hoped to meet him in heaven. 

Many months passed away. Dur- 
ing this time the regiment to which 
those men belonged had marched a 
long way up into the country, for the 
relief of the city of Lucknow, which 
had been besieged by the native 
troops. This regiment had passed 
through many hard-fought battles, 
besides the fatigues and exposures 
of long marches in a hot climate. 

One day, while the same lady was 



312 WOXDERFUL THINGS. 

going through the hospital, she was 
told that a sick soldier, just brought 
in, wished to see her. She went to 
his cot, and found a man whom she 
did not recognize. 

He looked earnestly at her and 
said, — 

'' You don't know me, madam, but 
IVe heard a great deal about you.'' 
As he spoke, he took from his bosom 
a piece of paper stained with blood, 
and showed her the texts she had 
written upon it for a soldier, some 
months before. 

'' That soldier,'' said he, " was my 
companion in the march from Cawn- 
poore to Lucknow. Often, when we 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 313 

halted in our march, he would take 
this leaf, and read and ponder over it. 
He learned these words by heart, 
and they guided him to Jesus. In 
one of the dreadful battles before 
Lucknow, a ball struck him, and he 
fell. We carried him from the field 
to the surgeon ; but it was too late. 
His life was ebbing fast away. 
*Well, James,' he said to me, ' Fm 
going home first. We have often 
talked together about that blessed 
home. Don't be sorry for me. I'm 
happy. I feel the truth of the hymn 
that Christian lady wrote for me, — 

" How sweet the name of Jesus sounds." 

Read me the precious words once 



814 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

more before I go/ I took from his 
bosom this leaf, now wet with his 
blood, and read: 'We know that 
if our earthly house of this taber- 
nacle be dissolved, we have a build- 
ing of God, a house not made with 
hands, eternal in the heavens/ 
* For the love of Christ constraineth 
us/ * Yes,* said he, ' the love of 
Christ constraineth us. Fm almost 
home. I'll be there to welcome you. 
Good-by, my dear fel — ' The word 
died upon his lips, and he was gone. 
I knelt down by his side, and took 
this torn and blood-stained leaf from 
his dead hand, and put it in my 
own bosom. Then we buried him. 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 315 

Since then I have encountered many- 
hardships and dangers, and now am 
here to die. And so, ma am, you'll 
please forgive me for making so bold 
as to speak to you. I wanted before 
I die to thank you for giving this 
leaf to my comrade. It guided him 
to Jesus, and he guided me.'' 

Quite overcome by her feelings, 
the lady was unable to speak. She 
could only press the dying soldier s 
hand as her tears fell fast upon his 
pillow. He died soon after, and 
joined his comrade in that bright 
and happy world, " where the wicked 
cease from troubling, and the weary 
are at rest.'' 



816 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

Here we see what a wonderful 
book the Bible is for guiding lost 
souls to Jesus. 

Now let me give you my last 
illustration about this wonderful 
book. 

In a village in the north of Eng- 
land there lived, some years ago, 
a widow with six children, all of 
whom were Sabbath school scholars. 
Their father was an officer in the 
British navy when he died, leaving 
his wife with the care of this large 
family. The bad conduct of the 
eldest son proved a great trial to his 
mother, whom he refused to obey. 
His companions were the worst 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 317 

boys in the village ; and after his 
father s death he became more dis- 
obedient than ever. His sad mother 
wept and prayed over him, but he 
went on in his wickedness. Finding 
that she could not control him, she 
concluded to send him to sea, hoping 
the strict discipline on shipboard 
might have a good effect on him. 
When packing his chest, his mother 
slipped in a pocket Bible, lifting up 
her heart in prayer that God would 
bless it to him, and make it the 
means of changing his heart, and 
saving his soul. He went very far 
astray ; but his mother's prayers 
followed him wherever he went. 



818 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

He seldom wrote to his mother, 
and never came back to her. She 
wept and mourned, but still hoped 
on that God would finally save him. 
At last the sad tidings came that the 
vessel in which he sailed had been 
lost at sea. Then his mothers 
heart was filled with sorrow; but 
her greatest grief was that she could 
not learn if he had repented of his 
sins and become a Christian before 
he died. To have known this would 
have been the sweetest comfort to 
her. 

One stormy night in winter, long 
after this, while she and her children 
were sitting by their cheerful fire- 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 319 

side, a knock was heard at the door. 
On opening it, they found there a 
weary, weather-beaten sailor. He 
said he was cold and hungry, and 
begged for food and shelter. They 
asked him in ; for, since her son 
had gone to sea, the mother always 
felt her heart drawn towards sailors 
when in trouble. She thought of 
her own dear boy, and tried to be as 
kind to a poor sailor as she would 
wish others to be to her son, should 
he be in want. 

So they welcomed the sailor, and 
gave him a seat by the fire, while 
supper was preparing for him. As 
he warmed himself, they asked about 



820 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

his voyages, the various countries 
he had visited, and the different ves- 
sels he had sailed in. He answered 
their questions freely, telling them all 
about his sufferings and dangers, and 
speaking particularly of a voyage 
in which he had been wrecked. 

'* We were overtaken by a violent 
tempest,'' said he, ''and our ship was 
driven ashore, and dashed to pieces. 
All the crew were lost but myself 
and one companion. We were 
thrown upon the beach, where my 
shipmate soon died, leaving me alone. 
He had once been the terror of the 
ship for his profanity and ungodli- 
ness. But a wonderful change had 



THE WOXDERFUL GUIDE. 821 

taken place in him, and for some 
time before his death he had been 
a Bible-reading, praying Christian, 
an example to all on board for his 
piety. 

''While lying on the beach, just 
before he died, he drew a Bible 
from his bosom and pressed it to 
his lips. Then he handed it to me, 
and said, ' Bob, this book has been 
the best friend I ever had. You 
know how different I have been 
lately from what I used to be. I 
owe it all to this book. I found it 
one day in overhauling my chest. 
On opening it, I saw my name 
written by my mother. It brought 

21 



322 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

up afresh the thought of her tender 
love, and her earnest prayers for me. 
It reminded me of my happy home, 
when a boy, in dear old England. 
I resolved to read it. I did so. It 
showed me what a sinner I was. 
It led me to Jesus. In Him I 
found a Saviour. I'm going to Him 
now. I shan't need this blessed 
book any more, so now I give it to 
you, Bob. Read it. Pray over it, 
and it will save your soul, as it has 
saved mine.' 

"Then, as he said this, he fell 
back upon the sand and died, with a 
prayer to Jesus on his lips.'' 

''' Have you that Bible with you ? '' 
asked the agitated mother. 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 323 

*^ Oh, yes ! ma*am, I've never parted 
with it since that day," said he, care- 
fully taking it from his bosom, and 
handing it to her. 

Tremblingly she seized it, and 
turning to the blank page she saw 
in her own handwriting the name of 
her dear lost boy. 

" Tis his ! 'tis his ! My son ! 
my son ! saved at last ! '' she ex- 
claimed, and burst into tears of joy 
and thankfulness. Her prayers had 
been answered ; and this wonderful 
book, the Bible, had been made use 
of to guide that poor wayward, wan- 
dering son to Jesus, and to heaven. 

Jesus is a wonderful Guide. 



324 WONDERFUL THINGS. 

There are three things He makes 
use of in guiding His people which 
show this. The first of these is a 
wonderful eye ; the second is a won- 
derful hand ; the third is a wonder- 
ful book. 

My dear children, will you not all 
make up your minds to take Jesus 
as your Guide? This is what He 
desires you to do when He says, 
'' Wilt thou not, from this time, cry 
unto me, My Father, Thou art the 
Guide of my youth ? '' (Jer. iii. 4.) 
If we take Jesus for our Guide, and 
follow His guidance, we shall most 
surely find Him to be a wonderful 
Guide. He will lead us safely 



THE WONDERFUL GUIDE. 325 

through this wicked world, and 
bring us home to Himself in heaven. 
Let the prayer go up from every 
heart, — 

" Guide me, O Thou gracious Saviour, 
Pilgrim through this foreign land : 
I am weak, but Thou art mighty. 
Hold me with Thy powerful hand." 



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